Spider webs are made from silk, a protein-based material. Spiders produce silk with specialized glands located in their abdomen. The silk is extruded through tiny spigots on the spider's ...

including six not previously linked to spider silk. Although the team identified the fiber’s protein ingredients, they lacked the recipe to produce the silk. In spiders, silk forms by traveling ...

Japan-based biochemist Ali Malay has long questioned traditional theories about how spiders make their silk. “The prevailing hypotheses seemed like magic, because, according to it, you suddenly ...

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.

He aims to modify a strain of yeast to produce spider silk. Charlotte’s Web didn’t go into great detail about the different types of silk that a spider can produce, but the video and screencap ...

As the researchers report in Genes & Development (13, 511–515, 1999), the silk glands (see inset ... replacing the silkworm fibroin gene with the spider gene spidroin could produce spider ...

Spiders, their venom and their silk pose many unsolved questions for science. A new study provides clues to better understand these eight-legged creatures.