Scientists have uncovered a 400-million-year-old genetic secret that gave spiders the ability to produce silk and weave their ...

The Darwin’s bark spider silk has a tensile strength of around 1.6 gigapascals, several times stronger than structural iron, ...

Car manufacturers are trialing spider-silk bioleather in seats and interior components, probing the hard limits of automotive-grade performance.

DENVER, Jan. 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CRISPR gene-editing, and related genome engineering technologies, are reshaping industries from medicine to materials, with breakthroughs in treating genetic ...

What makes spider silk so extraordinarily strong and elastic at the same time? This was the focus of recent investigations carried out by researchers from the University of Greifswald, the University ...

An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the ...

What makes spider silk so extraordinarily strong and elastic at the same time? This was the focus of recent investigations carried out by researchers from the University of Greifswald, the University ...

The remarkable silk used by net-casting spiders to snare prey is both highly elastic and exceptionally strong, offering clues ...

Spider monkeys share knowledge to find best fruit trees, research finds - The study was based on seven years of field ...

For decades, scientists viewed scalable spider silk production as a kind of “holy grail” for advanced materials. Many experts view spider silk as the foundational material that could unlock ...

Balenciaga has released garments featuring AMSilk’s bioengineered silk protein yarns as part of its Spring 2026 ready-to-wear ...

First commercially available products using AMSilk’s biotech silk protein yarnsDemonstrating a scalable, low impact alternative to conventional silk within luxury fashionDesigned for resilient, ...