Spider silk’s potential A decade ago ... The company also has a small industrial pilot plant, which allows them to “quickly scale up candidates.” The researchers at RIKEN and Spiber are ...

In this case, we’re talking about genetically modified yeast that produces spider silk. If that sounds like a lead-in to some Spiderman jokes and sci-fi references, you are correct on both accounts.

Prasad, “with their upright shells for headstones.” And then there’s spider silk, more elastic and durable than the moth’s. Many have dreamed—and their stories are here—of the ...

Spider silk, utilized by the protagonist in the movie ... which is created by fermenting micro-organisms fed with plant-based sugars, such as sugarcane. “We can change the fabric’s feeling ...