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Northwestern University

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Scanning electron microscopy images of fibers from engineered spider silk. To validate their computational findings, the Northwestern team used spectroscopy techniques to examine how the protein chains stretched and aligned in real fibers from engineered spider silk.

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Washington University at St. Louis

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