How is a brown recluse spider like a Samurai swordsmith?
Thursday, January 16, 2020 - 09:30
in Biology & Nature
There are two characteristics that work together to make spider silk so strong and tough. Hannes Schniepp says that the molecular structure of the protein from which the silk is spun — the first part of the spider’s secret — is pretty well understood. “Modern biology has given us the tools to run a sequence,” […]