Kraig Labs has engineered and refined proprietary production strains designed for durability, consistency, and high yields of recombinant spider silk. These production lines have been advanced through ...
Scientists have cracked a key mystery behind spider silk’s legendary strength and flexibility. They discovered that tiny ...
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 ...
In a quiet lab in Bayreuth, Germany, a team of researchers has achieved what has long eluded geneticists: modifying the genome of a spider to create a living organism capable of producing fluorescent ...
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 ...
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Spider silk 'superpowers' reveal path to lighter and stronger aircraft materials
Researchers from King’s College London and San Diego State University (SDSU) in California have ...
Stronger than steel and more eco-friendly than plastic, spider silk is an alluring substance for material scientists. 1 However, researchers know little about the proteins that comprise it and how ...
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