Simulations showed that stretching aligns protein chains and increases hydrogen bonds, which act like tiny bridges between ...

including six not previously linked to spider silk. Although the team identified the fiber’s protein ingredients, they lacked the recipe to produce the silk. In spiders, silk forms by traveling ...

Not only does spider silk combine the useful properties of high tensile strength and extensibility ... Jan adds, 'Cribellate silk acts like Velcro, sticking to the legs and bristles of captured ...

Not all spider silk is the same. There are seven different types of silk glands, but not all spiders have them all. To illustrate, the different types of silk with the gland that produces it in ...

By simulating spider silk in a computational model ... “Spiders perform the drawing process naturally,” said Northwestern Jacob Graham, the study’s first author. “When they spin silk out of their silk ...

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.

Known for its unmatched relative strength and flexibility, which could find uses in novel textiles, spider silk has long eluded efficient synthetic replication, in part because it has been ...

Spider silk is made of proteins and specifically ... This type of silk is produced by the flagelliform gland creating the supporting line while two further aggregate glands coat it with liquid ...

While spider silk proteins are something you can make in your garage, making useful drag line fibers has proved a daunting challenge. Now, a team of scientists from Japan and Hong Kong are closer ...

TSURUOKA, Yamagata Prefecture--A biotechnology startup based here is drawing major attention from investors for its development of spider silk for use as a synthetic fiber. Spider silk ...