The beetle's back and the crab's shell owe their toughness to a common compound called chitin that now appears to trigger airway inflammation and possibly asthma, scientists have found. The beetle ...

Mari Signum licensed his technology in 2016. “We found we could take shrimp shell, dissolve the chitin directly and pull it away from everything else,” Rogers says. The key was to find a ...

Convenience is a precious commodity for most shoppers and home cooks: Why should they take the time to peel the hard, chitinous shell off of however many shrimp they just cooked when they can just ...

"However, there are minor species-related differences that could allow us to develop tailor-made inhibitors that will prevent proper development of the chitinous shell in certain species," says ...