The team then validated these computational predictions through laboratory experiments using engineered spider silk. These insights could help researchers design engineered silk-inspired proteins and ...

Harnessing the properties of spider silk has been a longstanding ... But the potential for silk as ballistic body armor had been recognized more than two centuries earlier, by Leibniz.

The story of silk is full of the extraordinary. First Paraguay and Suriname have caterpillars larger than any in Europe, ...

By simulating spider silk in a computational model ... high-performance, blast-proof body armor. The study appears in Science Advances. "Researchers already knew this stretching, or drawing ...

By simulating spider silk in a computational model ... high-performance, blast-proof body armor. The study will be published on Friday (March 7) in the journal Science Advances.

Scanning electron microscopy images of fibers from engineered spider silk. To validate their ... high-performance, blast-proof body armor. The study will be published on Friday (March 7) in ...