Scientists exploring the potential of spider silk in next-generation cancer therapies have found yet another use for the natural material, using it to stabilize and enhance a cancer-killing ...

Methionine in a protein hydrophobic core drives tight interactions required for assembly of spider silk. Nature Communications , 2019; 10 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12365-5 Cite This Page : ...

"This spider is famous because it's been shown that one of the silk types that it makes, called dragline silk, is the toughest spider silk that's ever been measured," said evolutionary biologist ...

Scientists from the University of Würzburg have discovered that spider silk contains an exceptional protein. It generates high bonding strength by making use of an amino acid scientists have ...

As long as the spider consumes protein and is healthy and uninjured, it will never run out of silk. Spider Silk-Making Organs Spider silk is produced in a special organ with a charming name: the ...

The number of times I have walked into a spider web is pretty comical. At first, I saw them as a nuisance during my forest ...

That's longer than natural silk proteins that usually measure 370 kDa, and almost twice as long as other biosynthetic spider silk proteins that max out around 285 kDa. A microscope image of a ...

Spider silk is among the strongest and toughest materials in the natural world, as strong as some steel alloys with a toughness even greater than bulletproof Kevlar. Spider silk’s unmatched ...

But farming spiders for their natural silk is expensive, energy-intensive and difficult. So, scientists instead want to ...

At the same time, however, the natural methionine-containing protein binds much more strongly to other spider silk proteins. The leucine-containing protein we synthesized in the lab largely loses this ...

Spider silk consists of fiber-forming proteins, stored by the spider in a specialized gland. When the spider needs silk, for instance to build a web, it extrudes the silk proteins through a long duct ...