Native-like spider silk produced in metabolically engineered bacterium

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 12:28 in Biology & Nature

Researchers have long envied spiders’ ability to manufacture silk that is light-weighted while as strong and tough as steel or Kevlar. Indeed, finer than human hair, five times stronger by...

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