The dream of producing spider silk in industrial quantities has come a step closer to reality after scientists recreated the way silk protein is spun naturally into fibres that are stronger than steel.
Researchers have been trying to make artificial spider silk for decades because of its unusual and potentially lucrative properties.
As well as having extreme tensile strength, spider silk is highly elastic, and has the added advantage of being bio-degradable.
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