Utah State University begins production of biosynthetics for commercialization.

Logan -- The newly constructed Bioproducts Scale-Up Facility on UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY'S Innovation Campus will enable synthetic spider silk to be produced in commercial quantities. Funding for the facility was provided by the UTAH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH (USTAR) initiative.

"Within this new, state-of-the-art facility, Utah State will begin the process of producing synthetic spider silk and other biosynthetic materials in quantities that have not yet been achieved, which will enable commercial partners to take advantage of years of USU faculty research on new biomaterials that can be used for a wide variety of applications," says H. Scott Hinton, director of the USTAR Synthetic Biomanufacturing Institute at USU. "This new USTAR Bioproducts Scale-Up Facility can provide large quantities of these new biosynthetic materials to companies for innovative bioproducts that range from medical devices to textiles."

Stronger than Kevlar and more elastic than nylon, spider silk, until now, could only be produced in limited quantities. The USTAR Bioproducts Scale-Up Facility at USU...

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