Japan-based biochemist Ali Malay has long questioned traditional theories about how spiders make their silk. “The prevailing hypotheses seemed like magic, because, according to it, you suddenly ...

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories has developed transgenic silkworms to produce spider silk in commercial quantities.

In a materials science discovery, scientists made a liquid silk solution that hardens and picks up objects—not unlike ...

Spider silk is like something out of a comic book. It is superstrong. Flexible. Elastic. When compared in terms of strands of ...

The successful production surge was driven by Kraig Labs' newest hybrid spider silk production strain, which transformed traditional silkworms into producers of spider silk-based fibers. This record ...

While spider silk proteins are something you can make in your garage, making useful drag line fibers has proved a daunting challenge. Now, a team of scientists from Japan and Hong Kong are closer ...

Then come the spiders! We all know that spider silk is remarkable, but how remarkable is a surprise, at least to me. Spiders produce many types of silk, each adapted for a particular purpose ...

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. ( www.KraigLabs.com ), a reporting biotechnology company is the leading developer of genetically engineered spider silk-based fiber technologies. The Company has ...

The best of these gifts are nuggets of fresh insect meat a female can feed on while a male inserts sperm. The more time she spends opening and eating her gift, the more sperm he can deliver. That ...

Marvel licensed the Spider-Man rights to Sony Pictures Entertainment for $7 million. Sony’s Columbia Pictures won the rights to the live-action Spider-Man movie (that would swing onto the big screen ...