Researchers at the New York University Polytechnic School of
Engineering have broken new ground in the development of proteins that form
specialized fibers used in medicine and nanotechnology. For as long as
scientists have been able to create new proteins that are capable of
self-assembling into fibers, their work has taken place on the nanoscale. For
the first time, this achievement has been realized on the microscale—a leap of
magnitude in size that presents significant new opportunities for using
engineered protein fibers.