Spider Silk May Hold Clues To More Efficient Biomedical Adhesives That Could Bind Fractures: Study

The super-sticky silk produced by spiders might help scientists develop more efficient and stronger commercial and biomedical adhesives that could be used to attach tendons to bones or bind fractures, according to a new study. Researchers at he University of Akron in Ohio have created synthetic duplicates of the super-sticky silk "attachment discs" that spiders use to attach their webs to surfaces. They say that these discs are created when spiders pin down an underlying thread of silk with addi...