Kraig’s approach to Spider Silk leverages sericulture the centuries-old practice of silkworm cultivation as an existing production framework. By combining that infrastructure with modern genetic ...

Despite centuries of human use of silk fibres from silkworm cocoons, and an emerging industry devoted to making artificial silk, questions remain about how insects produce it. New work in vitro ...

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Delicate threads of spider’s silk are about to solve a major problem in photonics: how to make hollow optical fibres narrow enough to carry light beams around the fastest nanoscale optical ...

Spider silk is stronger than steel and tougher than Kevlar, but efforts to spin our own have so far failed to match the real thing. Now a German research group has come up with artificial fibres that ...

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Spider’s silk is already tougher than steel — but physicists in Germany have now found that it can be made even stronger by adding small quantities of metal. The discovery could help researchers ...