Treatment of spinal cord injury remains a major challenge since regenerating nerves are unable to bridge the gap caused by spinal injury Silk fiber from the Antheraea pernyi silkworm possesses unique ...

Spider silk is one of the design industry’s biggest–and most elusive–material obsessions. It’s naturally lightweight, stretchy, antimicrobial, and strong. Imagine a shirt that’s soft as silk, durable ...

Leveraging a biological swarm of silkworms, MIT has constructed a beautiful pavilion that questions the very nature of 3-D printing. Happy (almost) New Year! We’re saying good-bye to 2013 by ...

Their initial discovery had seemed like a contradiction because most other polymer fibres embrittle in the cold. But after many years of working on the problem, the group of researchers have ...

Spider silk has long been hailed for its wondrous properties, such as incredible toughness. Now researchers have found a weird kind of webbing that acts as both a liquid and a solid. What’s more, they ...

Biobased artificial spider silk captures moisture and generates triboelectric power using simple water-based processing, offering an efficient and sustainable approach for water harvesting and low ...

A strand of spider silk is five times stronger than a steel cable of the same weight - but researchers have always struggled to work out why. Now, researchers studying the brown recluse spider have ...

“They can’t fly,” says the manager of the Brochier Soieries silk shop in the old quarter of Lyons, France. “Their bodies are too fat. Or their wings are too big. Or something. Anyway, they’d never get ...

A silkworm that spins a protein from human skin has been created in Japan. The technology could introduce biotechnology to silk-manufacturing countries. The genetically engineered worms spool out ...