Written by: Zachary B. Grinovich Press releases report that Boston Scientific (BSX) has entered an agreement to acquire medical device developer Silk Road Medical in a deal... Read More

Spider silks are highly desired for their incredible tensile strengths and low densities, but have proved difficult to produce at... Read More

Spider silks have long been known to posses exception material properties. "Dragline" silk, the silk used to construct the foundations... Read More

Due to its deadly nature and near invulnerability, the fear of anthrax being used in a terrorist attack is quite... Read More

Xinwei Wang, an associate professor of mechanical engineering  at Iowa State, has found that spider silks -- particularly the draglines... Read More

This week, research was published showing that silk produced by transgenically-engineered silkworms exhibits the highly sought-after strength and elasticity of... Read More