How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by MIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation at 28 Oct, 16:04 UTC

By probing its molecular structure, biologists are uncovering how a tangle of unstructured proteins turns into a tough, flexible thread. The post How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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• T1How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest MaterialMIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation28 Oct, 16:04