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Kazuhisa Sekimizu1, Hiroshi Hamamoto
1Laboratory of Microbiology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo.
Drug Discoveries & Therapeutics
|March 15, 2016
Abstract:
For this special issue, we, the Editors of Drug Discoveries & Therapeutics, have asked researchers who are using silkworms to actively develop drugs and study foods to summarize their recent work. Our profound hope is that this special issue encourages researchers who are helping to develop the new field of "using silkworms as a laboratory animal to evaluate medicines and foods".

