Silk's Many Strengths (VIDEO)

U.S. National Science Foundation

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Future research could spin up new medical and materials breakthroughs based on silk, but there are still uncertainties about how spiders and silkworms make the natural kind.

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David T. Wright and Dena Headlee, National Science Foundation

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