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 to ...

(via SciShow) The ability to produce synthetic spider silk would give us bulletproof vests better than Kevlar, biocompatible sutures and wound dressings, and even space elevators. The problem is being ...

Spider silk, a protein fiber known for its remarkable strength, flexibility, and biocompatibility, has many potential applications, ranging from biomedicine to materials science. However, the ...

Scientists have synthesized spider silk from genetically modified silkworms, producing fibers six times tougher than the Kevlar used in bulletproof vests. The study is the first to successfully ...

Spider silk—six times tougher than Kevlar and stronger than steel—has now been produced by an unexpected source. Spider silk is a biological protein fiber spun by spiders. Many of these fibers have ...

Once a scientific curiosity, lab-engineered spider silk has now entered the early stages of commercialization. Its ...

An interdisciplinary team led by a chemist and a spider expert worked for five years to create a synthetic spider silk with antimicrobial properties, according to recent study published in the journal ...

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Scientists have discovered a remarkable property of a certain type of spider silk: It acts like a solid when you stretch it, but liquid when you squish it. And they’ve proven that they understand how ...

Sept. 4 -- — Scientists are finally closing in on the answers to a puzzle that has perplexed them for centuries: How does a spider spin a web of silk that is five times stronger, on a ...

Synthetic spider silk, which currently accounts for 58% of the market, dominates due to its scalability and performance ...