Moss is an often-overlooked, ancient plant that is far from insignificant. Among the first to colonize land, mosses greened ...

Dragline Silk – the strongest type of silk used for the support and structure of the web Capture Silk – highly elastic silk used for trapping prey upon contact.

As a result, the offspring of the gene-edited spiders showed red fluorescence in their dragline silk—clear evidence of the successful knock-in of the gene sequence into a silk protein.

Dragline spider silk weighs 1.18 and 1.36 g/cm 3, whereas Kevlar weighs 1.44 and steel weighs 7.84. Because spider silk combines strength, biocompatibility, and elasticity, it could be useful in ...

Dragline silk from the orb weaving spider has remarkable mechanical properties, including high tensile strength and flexibility.

SWNS Lin said: "Dragline silk is the main structural silk of a spider web. It is also used as a lifeline for a spider to fall from trees." ...

The team found it also had a significantly higher tensile strength than natural spider dragline silk, at 2 Gigapascal (GPa).

In testing, they found that the silk they’d just created—identical to spider dragline silk in appearance—was 70 percent stronger. It was also more than twice as strong as a silkworm’s ...

However, these silks are not as durable and are weaker than silk spun by spiders, specifically spider dragline silks which naturally do well under high tension.

Researchers have designed artificial spider silk proteins with properties that not even spiders can achieve, and the fibres they have spun are equally tough as the spider's silk. The yield is also in ...

Myth, busted: Spider silk might not have antibiotic properties after all Scientists extracted dragline silk from some spiders using a mechanical Lego apparatus.