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Nick Skaer cutting silkworm silk in lab. Photo: Supplied
Like it or not we're getting older, and fatter too; that's bad news for our knee joints that are giving up on us like never before.
Nick Skaer is the CEO of Orthox, a British company trying to cope with the surge in knee replacement surgery by using regenerative silk implants based on the silks spun by silkworms and spiders.