Snippets of spider genes let mutant silkworms spin silk stronger than steel. Scientists have coaxed miles of spider-like silk from a colony of transgenic silkworms, opening the door for large-scale ...

Spiders hold the market for the strongest silks but are too aggressive and territorial to be farmed. The next best alternative involves incorporating spider DNA into silkworms, an expensive and ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Silk is a fabulous fabric, but it’s also a material that can do so ...

As one of the strongest materials known to science, spider silk regularly finds itself at the center of exciting engineering breakthroughs, and a new study involving a quick chemical bath could take ...

When it comes to making strong fibers, scientists like David L. Kaplan say that we still have a lot to learn from the humble silkworm and spider. Kaplan, chairman of the biomedical engineering ...

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 ...

Current methods for repairing injured nerves can be hit-and-miss and are restricted to repair over short distances. For the first time, researchers have combined two kinds of silk to create a ...

Silkworms as 3-D printers? For millennia, they’ve provided us with silk, but the process has always required some amount of harvesting (boiling cocoons to create silk filament). Now, MIT researchers ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Brown cows may not actually make chocolate milk, but pink silkworms ...

The French company Sericyne won’t detail how it gets worms to weave specific shapes, but its online boutique sells the results. By Felicia Craddock MONOBLET, France — On a clear day in early fall, ...