His company, Bolt Threads, has engineered a sustainable and versatile material from synthetic spider silk that may one day be used to make iPad covers ... elasticity of a rubber band and a ...

As a naturally occurring supermaterial, spider silk is five times stronger than steel and more elastic than rubber ... that Bolt Threads' fabrics could be in things like iPad covers and car ...

A Bay Area biotech company hopes so. Bolt Threads is the Emeryville next-generation materials company founded by UCSF and UC Berkeley scientists. Their latest product is Mylo, an alternative ...