Randy Lewis: It's called dragline silk, and it's the silk that they use to make the framework of the web and the radii, but they also, the reason it's called dragline is that whenever they walk ...

Scientists now turn their attention to spider silk to spin stronger fibers. (2) Scientists studied the spidroin protein from dragline silk threads found in spider webs and coaxed microbes to produce ...

Jumping spiders don’t build webs, but like their arachnid kin, they can produce silk. Some species are known to spin fine threads as they leap, presumably to stabilize takeoff and ensure a more ...

Through meticulous fieldwork, they analysed spider RNA to determine the amino-acid sequences of spider-silk proteins, focusing particularly on dragline silk, which is a particularly strong variety ...

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