Spiders produce artificial yarns for medical use and clothing

  Spiders produce artificial yarns for medical use and clothing

A team of researchers confirmed reaching a production of yarn artificial spiders, which are finer than the hair fibre with 30 time stronger than steel, it said in a new study.

The glands secrete spiders these threads to be used in the construction of their homes, but scientists have concluded the production of these strands of synthetically without relying on spiders.

A researcher at the University of "Ursala" Swedish and co-author of the study published in the journal "Nature Kamikl biological" Jan Johnson: "We have designed a protein of the silk through several types of spiders."

According to the study, this protein can be used to produce large quantities of yarn spiders.

Such yarns used in medicine and also in the field of textile production and bullet-proof vests, to the fact that threaded light, durable, and new types of sports clothing.

It was not possible to rely on spiders to produce this thread, because spiders can not be cultured in a common place, as they prey on each other, and the pace of reproduction then slow. So the researchers deliberately to synthetic yarns.

It produces spiders entangled after the secretion of the protein material from the glands. It ensures the narrow channel to draw them in the form of filaments, and in this channel changing acidity and pressure, which makes the proteins condense on some of them and turn into filaments.

The synthetic yarns, would hand from a device that simulates the production of threaded channel the spiders and the functions themselves in terms of changing the acidity and pressure, according to researchers.