"It can't rival Spider-Man yet, but a new micromachine that works like a spider's silk duct might finally lead the way to producing industrial quantities of high-quality artificial spider silk.
Spider silk is super-light, super-strong and elastic too. Existing human materials lack its useful combination of properties, and proposed uses span everything from bulletproof vests to optic fibres.
Researchers have struggled for years to find an industrial process to make spider silk, and have tried everything from making it in a lab dish to creating silk-secreting goats.
Now German researchers have demonstrated a new method of production - an artificial version of the ducts spiders use to "spin" the silk."
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