Spider silk is prized for its strength. But spiders don’t make enough of the tough fibers to harvest for industrial uses. So researchers and biotech firms have turned to bioengineering silk with ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Protein fibers such as collagen fibers, hairs, and silks, are fundamental building blocks of life. They play an essential role in motility, elasticity, scaffolding, stabilization ...

An American research team is the first to use silk fibers as a framework to grow stem cells into salivary gland cells. The new process could provide relief for millions of individuals with dry mouth, ...

The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center image: Chih-Ko Yeh, B.D.S., Ph.D., leads a team of researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and UT San ...

The secrets behind the mighty strength of silk could be unravelled by neutron-scattering experiments being carried out in France. Early results have revealed that silk worms spin their silky threads ...

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Wow. Give silkworms a special diet of mulberries and fluorescent dye, so they can spin out a pink-colored fiber. Researchers at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore ...