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- | It looks like a tiny kangaroo and it’s bouncing back from the brink of extinction | + | These scientists want to give patients medicines wrapped in silk |
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+ | For centuries, Thailand has produced premium silk fabrics, exported around the globe. | ||
- | The brush-tailed bettong looks like a miniature kangaroo and, similarly, has a pouch where it keeps its young. But don’t be fooled, this small marsupial is not as adorable as it looks. When threatened by a predator, the bettong will eject its tiny joey from its pouch and bounce off in a different direction | + | However, biomedical researchers at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok have found another use for the fiber: |
- | Sacrificing one’s own young might seem brutal, but it’s an essential survival strategy for a species | + | Drug delivery systems come in many forms, from capsules and tablets |
- | Brush-tailed bettongs (also known as woylies) once inhabited more than 60% of mainland Australia. However, the European colonization | + | According to Juthamas Ratanavaraporn, director |
- | Between 1999 and 2010, the species’ population size declined by 90% – a drastic drop that some research suggests may have resulted from the spread of blood parasites, alongside | + | |
- | Marna Banggara | + | “Instead of needing large or frequent doses, the protein capsule can release the drug gradually, in the appropriate amounts needed by the body. This controlled release helps reduce the overall dose and the risk of side effects,” says Ratanavaraporn. |
- | “We are on a mission, if you like, to bring back some of these native species that have gone missing | + | |
- | Formerly known as the “Great Southern Ark,” the project, which was launched | + | Ratanavaraporn, who has been studying silk for more than 17 years, spun out her research into a company |
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- | “Marna in our language means good, prosperous, healthy, and Banggara means country,” says Garry Goldsmith, a member of the Narungga community who works on the project. | + | |