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How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material

by Yasemin Saplakoglu on quantamagazine.orgArticle

By probing its molecular structure, biologists are uncovering how a tangle of unstructured proteins turns into a tough, flexible thread. The post How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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