Now, a team of scientists from Japan and Hong Kong are closer to replicating artificial spider silk using microfluidics. Based on how spiders spin their silk, the researchers designed a ...

This has enabled them to do something that had previously eluded scientists — create a system that mimics how spiders spin silk and is capable of mass-producing artificial spider silk fibres.

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

Spider silk, already known for its exceptional strength, reveals an astonishing manufacturing process. Researchers have discovered that stretching plays a key role in the solidity of these ...

He argued that future experiments should try to directly observe these layers by capturing silk cross-sections using electron microscopy. Researchers hope that artificial spider silk could one day ...

Now, Lewis and other scientists say that silk is so strong, it could be used in advances in artificial ligaments, surgical sutures, and hernia meshes. While other spider threads rely on one ...

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.

Louis, has been engineering microbes to produce spider-silk materials for several years. By extruding engineered spider silk proteins and then stretching them by hand, the team has developed ...

By extruding engineered spider silk proteins and then stretching them by hand, the team has developed artificial fibers similar to threads from the golden silk orb weaver, a large spider with a ...

By extruding engineered spider silk proteins and then stretching them by hand, the team has developed artificial fibers similar to threads from the golden silk orb weaver, a large spider with a ...

Since it is very difficult to harvest silk from spiders, there is a strong push to produce it artificially. While Numata’s team at RIKEN was exploring how to make artificial spider silk ...