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 ...

Known for its unmatched relative strength and flexibility, which could find uses in novel textiles, spider silk has long eluded efficient synthetic replication, in part because it has been ...

But developing such fibres with the stiffness, elasticity and adhesive properties of spider silk has been a challenge – until now, researchers at Tufts University say. Silk solution solidifies ...

"The spider has a complex spinning duct in which silk proteins are exposed to physical forces, chemical gradients, the combination of which generates the assembly of molecules that leads to silk ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 04, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (OTCQB: KBLB) ("the Company" or "Kraig Labs"), the leading developer of advanced spider silk-based fibers, is ...

However, replicating the stiffness, elasticity, and adhesive properties of spider silk has proven challenging—until now. According to the study published in Advanced Functional Materials ...

The resulting ‘microsilk’ is molecularly equal to natural spider silk even though no spiders are involved in the process, and hailed by many as the future of eco-friendly fabric. They’ve already ...