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Silk

Bioprospecting Finds the Toughest Biological Material: Extraordinary Silk from a Giant Riverine Orb Spider

Ingi Agnarsson, Matjaž Kuntner, Todd A. Blackledge

A laboratory-based study examining the properties of silk fabric to evaluate its potential as a protective barrier for personal protective equipment and as a functional material for face coverings during the COVID-19 pandemic

Adam F. Parlin, Samuel M. Stratton, Theresa M. Culley, Patrick A. Guerra

Artificial Skin – Culturing of Different Skin Cell Lines for Generating an Artificial Skin Substitute on Cross-Weaved Spider Silk Fibres

Hanna Wendt, Anja Hillmer, [ ... ], Peter M. Vogt

Blueprint for a High-Performance Biomaterial: Full-Length Spider Dragline Silk Genes

Nadia A. Ayoub, Jessica E. Garb, [ ... ], Cheryl Y. Hayashi

High-Toughness Silk Produced by a Transgenic Silkworm Expressing Spider (Araneus ventricosus) Dragline Silk Protein

Yoshihiko Kuwana, Hideki Sezutsu, [ ... ], Katsura Kojima

Evidence of the Most Stretchable Egg Sac Silk Stalk, of the European Spider of the Year Meta menardi

Emiliano Lepore, Andrea Marchioro, [ ... ], Nicola M. Pugno

How Did the Spider Cross the River? Behavioral Adaptations for River-Bridging Webs in Caerostris darwini (Araneae: Araneidae)

Matjaž Gregorič, Ingi Agnarsson, Todd A. Blackledge, Matjaž Kuntner

Bundles of Spider Silk, Braided into Sutures, Resist Basic Cyclic Tests: Potential Use for Flexor Tendon Repair

Kathleen Hennecke, Joern Redeker, [ ... ], Peter M. Vogt

Conductive Polymer Combined Silk Fiber Bundle for Bioelectrical Signal Recording

Shingo Tsukada, Hiroshi Nakashima, Keiichi Torimitsu

Composition and Hierarchical Organisation of a Spider Silk

Alexander Sponner, Wolfram Vater, [ ... ], Klaus Weisshart

Biomolecular Evidence of Silk from 8,500 Years Ago

Yuxuan Gong, Li Li, [ ... ], Juzhong Zhang

Genome-Wide Identification and Immune Response Analysis of Serine Protease Inhibitor Genes in the Silkworm, Bombyx mori

Ping Zhao, Zhaoming Dong, [ ... ], Qingyou Xia

Silk from Crickets: A New Twist on Spinning

Andrew A. Walker, Sarah Weisman, [ ... ], Tara D. Sutherland

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