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 ...

Spider silk fibers are composed of large, repetitive proteins (spidroins), which determine the mechanical properties of the silk they compose. The spidroin structure-function relationship has been ...

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

A team of Chinese researchers has revealed a hierarchical mechanism under spider dragline silk spinning, which is expected to benefit spider-inspired artificial fibers. This was reported by The Xinhua ...

Dragline silk has good mechanical properties and bionic application potential, but the amount of natural spider silk is limited. Many researchers dedicate their research to the secretion and synthesis ...

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 ...

New process creates silk that is 70 per cent tougher than the stronger-than-steel version spun by spiders and can be used in medical devices, researchers say.

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 ...