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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Chitin and its derivative chitosan are natural polymers found in crustaceans and elsewhere in nature.

While consumers of crabs know just what the core of a crustacean has to offer, scientists are increasingly looking at the animal’s exoskeleton for novel medicine and biotechnology. Much of the ...

According to a news release from EurekAlert, the University of Maryland developed a new power cell that sources from one of the most unimaginable sources of electric power, and it is crab shells. The ...

image: ?hemists from RUDN University synthesized soluble biopolymers based on chitin from crab shells. Together with palladium, they form effective catalysts for organic reactions, and their ...