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neville park 4d ago

Oh my goodness. New Travis McEnery video, over an hour long, about SPIDER SILK. https://youtu.be/vqsMYw7vKbk

#spiders #SpiderSilk

Spider Silk: Nature's Super-Material Explained

YouTube

Education & Knowledge Apr 11

How Spider Silk Is Made

https://tube.blueben.net/w/jCZT23zjTJ7JsyY8idqoPM

How Spider Silk Is Made

PeerTube

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Mar 8

#SpiderSilk-making organs evolved due to a 400-million-year-old #genetic oops
#Spiders and silk go hand in hand, but spinnerets may exist thanks to an ancient error
A close look at the genetics and development of #spinnerets — spiders’ silk-making organs — reveals that an early arachnid doubled all of its DNA hundreds of millions of years ago. The findings suggest key, doubled genes were responsible for the #evolution of spinnerets.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/spider-silk-making-organ-evolve-genetic
https://archive.ph/LVsPW

Spider silk-making organs evolved due to a 400-million-year-old genetic oops

An ancient ancestor of spiders and relatives doubled its genome about 400 million years ago, setting the stage for the evolution of spinnerets.

Science News

Daniele Liprandi Jan 29

My last big work on spider silk is coming out! We discovered that spider silk does not behave like many people think, and that sometimes with just three bottles you can get more than four types of drinks!

Enjoy the read

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2026/sm/d5sm01141h

#science #spider #spidersilk #biology #nature #mechanics #engineering #physics

Mehmet Turgay AKALIN Nov 30, 2025

Stronger than steel, softer than skin.
A new era of medicine is being woven, literally! We explore how a Latvian biotech company is biomimetically synthesizing spider silk, nature's most perfect fiber, to create clot-resistant heart valves and scaffolds for lab-grown organs. This is the future of implantable tech.

Read about "The Iron Thread": https://medium.com/@makalin/%EF%B8%8Fthe-iron-thread-how-biotech-is-weaving-spider-silk-into-the-future-of-human-organs-ed25846413b9

#SpiderSilk #Biotech #MedTech #RegenerativeMedicine #Nanotechnology

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neville park Oct 12, 2025

#Arachtober 12: a small yellow sac spider (_Cheiracanthium_) perches on a fence post and releases a stream of silk strands that are separated and carried aloft by the breeze and (as we've learned in recent years) atmospheric static electricity. If the silk catches on something, the spider can use it to bridge a long gap. Smaller spiders can be borne aloft entirely and traverse long distances, a behaviour called ballooning.

#ArthroBeauty #SpiderSilk #SpiderBehaviour #spiders #Araneae #Cheiracanthiidae