“Our strength lies in molecular design ... Spiber teams were instrumental in elucidating the structures and physical properties of spider silk from more than 1,000 spider species across the ...

Researchers don’t know enough about spider silk structure and composition to understand why it possesses such superior ... To further explore protein layering, the team treated the fibers with ...

Based on how spiders spin their silk, the researchers designed a microfluidic device to replicate the chemical and physical gradients present in the spider. By varying the amount of shear and ...

Spider silk nanofibrils are just a few molecular layers thick ... If humans find a way to replicate the structure of spider ...

Inspired by the natural wonder of spider silk ... peptides acted as a kind of molecular scaffolding, helping the artificial ...