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A TuftsNow January 2023 article reports on Silklab's work on wearable, printable, shapeable Sensors

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Drug Discovery News reports on silk coating for oral administration of drugs

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RSI (Italian-speaking Swiss Radio & Television) hosts Prof. Omenetto for a meeting about 'The Music of Silk'

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Quanta Magazine and, notably, the Tufts and Silklab alumna Natalie Wolchover awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory writing on the James Webb Space Telescope

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Professor Omenetto and PhD Student Luciana d’Amone discuss their research in the NOVA PBS documentary, Butterfly Blueprints (10:30 timestamp)

A poster for the DLS series featuring Professor Omenetto on February 10, 2022

Professor Omenetto was a 2022 Dinstinguished Lecturer at the Max Planck Institute: Living materials – manipulating light with forms of the past?"

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A January 2022 article by the American Institute of Physics in Phys.org features Silklab's perspective on silk as a material

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A June 2021 wired article titled "The Race to Put Silk in Nearly Everything" reviews the recent history of silk pioneering, and mentions a few silk startups co-founded by Prof. Omenetto

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A June 2021 article in TuftsNow: "Inkjet Printing 'Impossible Materials'"

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"A TuftsNow June 2021 article reports on Silklab's work to Make Powerful Underwater Glue Inspired by Barnacles and Mussels"

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"A June 2021 New Scientist article: "Underwater glue made from silk can cling to surfaces like a barnacle"

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TuftsNow reports in May 2021 that "Tufts SilkLab Creates Leather-like Material from Silk Proteins"

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A Fast Company magazine issue: "This Fake Leather is Made From Silk"

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TuftsNow published in March 2021 the article "Controlled by Light Alone, New Smart Materials Twist, Bend and Move"

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A July 2020 TechTales article: "Smart fabrics with bioactive inks monitor body"

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A July 2020 Scientific American article: "Color-Changing Ink Turns Clothes into Giant Chemical Sensors"

Tufts University released a video about Silklab's chemically sensing fabrics, and TuftsNow released an article, "New smart fabrics with bioactive inks monitor body and environment by changing color"

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An October 2019 Phys Org article: "New silk materials can wrinkle into detailed patterns, then unwrinkle to be 'reprinted'"

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A September 2019 Scientific American article: "The Future of Silk"

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A May 2018 exhibit in the Barcelona Design Museum: "‘Design Does’: Lachesis – Drawing the Fabric of Life"

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A 2017 MIT Technology Video: "Spinning Silk into Sensors"

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A December 2016 Phys Org article: "Engineers create programmable silk-based materials with embedded, pre-designed functions"

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A September 2015 Med Device article: "New Bioink Can 3D Print Tissue At Room Temperature"

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A July 2015 New Atlas article: A July 2015 New Atlas article: "Silk-based functional inks put biosensor data on your fingertips"

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A June 2015 Science Friday article: "The Silk Road’s Turn Toward Biotechnology"

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A June 2015 CNN article: "The healing 'microchip' under your skin"

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A January 2015 Wired article: "Turning silk into edible food wrappers and flexible screens"

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A 2015 Video: "Materiali viventi per il futuro (Living materials for the future)"

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A November 2014 Forbes article: "Wireless Implant Eliminates Bacteria, Then Dissolves"

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An April 2014 Wall Street Journal article: "Bionics to Track Your Health"

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A March 2014 Chemistry World article: "Silkscreen printing goes nano"

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A September 2013 NBC article: "It's Alive(ish)! Brain Cells Grow and Respond in Artificial Tissue"

An October 2013 video: Leading-edge Technologies Session - Innovative City Forum.

In 2011, Professor Omenetto gives a Ted Talk on "Silk, the ancient material of the future"