Dublin, March 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Chitin Global Market Insights 2025, Analysis and Forecast to 2030, by Manufacturers, Regions, Technology, Application" report has been added to ...

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's ...

Scientists from the University of Havana have used lobster waste to generate chitin and chitosan, two key compounds in biomedicine and agriculture. They used these compounds to produce surgical ...

We know it's April Fools, but this is super serious stuff (read: not an April Fools joke). Okay, it may not come exactly in the form of the above image (I wouldn't complain), but developments in the ...

Royal College of Art graduate Jeongwon Ji has made her own bioplastic from crab shells. Material samples and crab shell pieces Aiming to make a more tactile casing for electronic products, Jeongwon Ji ...

Cellulose and chitin are the world's first- and second-most common biopolymers, found in plants and crustacean shells (among other places) respectively. Georgia Tech scientists have now devised a ...