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 ...

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.

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 ...

Scanning electron microscopy images of fibers from engineered spider silk. To validate their computational findings, the Northwestern team used spectroscopy techniques to examine how the protein ...

Understanding how the stretching process strengthens spider silk is a key part of helping design stronger, biodegradable, silk-inspired materials for various applications. When spiders spin their webs ...

Spiders make their webs from silk, a natural fibre made of protein. Not only does spider silk combine the useful properties of high tensile strength and extensibility, it can be beautiful in its own ...

Spider silk is produced in a special organ with a charming name: the ‘spinneret.’ These are usually found on the spider’s abdomen – towards the rear and on the underside.

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 ...

Silliman exfoliated nanofibrils from the silk onto a thumb tip-sized silicon disk containing approximately two million holes, each 200 nanometers in diameter. He then probed for fibers stretched ...