A team of researchers from Tufts University, Imperial College London and the University of Michigan has created a new ...

Silk sericin (SS) is a natural polymer widely studied in the design of biodegradable materials for cosmetic, biomedical, food, and chemical applications. This work was designed to explore the ...

In mouse skin wounds, a recombinant spider-silk and liquid-metal thread reduced scar area by over 58 percent while adding ...

Researchers have harnessed the light-guiding properties of spider silk to develop a sensor that can detect and measure small changes in the refractive index of a biological solution, including glucose ...

For the first time, scientists have successfully produced full-length spider silk fibers using genetically modified silkworms. With high strength and toughness, this silk has the potential to provide ...

The complex molecular structure of spider silk has been successfully copied as scientists spin silk from an artificial gland that mimics nature’s process of producing one of the world’s toughest ...

Researchers from Tufts University, Imperial College London, and the University of Michigan have developed a new way to turn natural silk into an ultra-strong solid material without dissolving the ...

In this experiment, the polymorphic diapause strain Lan 10 (maintained in the Bombyx mori genetics and breeding laboratory of Zhejiang University) was used as the experimental system, and fresh ...

Spiders hold the market for the strongest silks but are too aggressive and territorial to be farmed. The next best alternative involves incorporating spider DNA into silkworms, an expensive and ...