The University of Bayreuth's Biomaterials research group has, for the first time, successfully applied the CRISPR-Cas9 ...

Now, a team of scientists from Japan and Hong Kong are closer to replicating artificial spider silk using microfluidics. Based on how spiders spin their silk, the researchers designed a ...

Narrator: This is Randy Lewis, a molecular biologist at Utah State University known for his pioneering efforts in producing synthetic spider silk. Now, Lewis and other scientists say that silk is ...

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 ...

He argued that future experiments should try to directly observe these layers by capturing silk cross-sections using electron microscopy. Researchers hope that artificial spider silk could one day ...

Spider silk, stronger than steel and more resistant than Kevlar, has long interested scientists. However, large-scale farming is difficult, pushing researchers to develop synthetic alternatives.

In this case, we’re talking about genetically modified yeast that produces spider silk. If that sounds like a lead-in to some Spiderman jokes and sci-fi references, you are correct on both accounts.

Researchers have produced the first recombinant spider silk that mimics the toughness of the natural material, according to a study published last month (February 16) in Advanced Materials. The key to ...

By extruding engineered spider silk proteins and then stretching them by hand, the team has developed artificial fibers similar to threads from the golden silk orb weaver, a large spider with a ...

But Peter may have gone one step further and actually made one improvement to his synthetic silk. Latest videos When Spider-man made his own webbing in his high school chemistry class, he was ...

Record-Breaking DNA Construct Redefines What's Possible Kraig's synthetic biology team completed what's believed to be the world's largest DNA construct ever used for spider silk production.