Researchers don’t know enough about spider silk structure and composition ... To further explore protein layering, the team treated the fibers with different concentrations of urea, a ...

While spider silk proteins are something you can make in ... the researchers designed a microfluidic device to replicate the chemical and physical gradients present in the spider.

Other molecular constituents found in spider silk, such as glycoproteins ... for this phase transition. “These proteins naturally possess a hierarchical structure achieved through self-assembly ...

Find out how web-spinning spiders do what they do and learn about the impressive, multipurpose material they use to catch their dinner. Spiders make their webs from silk, a natural fibre made of ...

Narrator: This is Randy Lewis, a molecular biologist at Utah State ... Lewis: In terms of the spider silk protein, we've got to find a cheap way to make it. Narrator: Randy and his team took ...

When spiders ... structure and strength. To tackle this open-ended question, Keten and Graham developed a computational model to simulate the molecular dynamics within Zhang's artificial silk.

Spider silk, already known for its exceptional ... experiments to understand how stretching transforms the molecular structure of silk. The results could lead to innovations in the design of ...

Scientists found that combining the notoriously flimsy anticancer protein p53 with a domain from a spider silk protein resulted in a more ... very interesting idea,” says University of Manitoba ...

Teulé-Finley worked 8 years as a research scientist in the Department of molecular biology (University ... primarily focused on the understanding of structure-function in fibrous proteins (using ...