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Compartmentalized protein expression in the spider silk gland provides clues to spinning more sustainable materials. 

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Infographic: Synthetic Biology is Transforming Clothes and Cosmetics

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Science Snapshot: Legs for Days

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Fusion with Spider Silk Increases Anticancer Protein’s Stability

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The Spider Lady, Circa 1939

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Spiders Catapult Themselves to Avoid Becoming Their Mate’s Meal

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Study Questions Sterility of Snake and Spider Venoms

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Webless Jumping Spiders Spin Super Strong Silk

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Spider Uses Its Web Like a Giant Engineered Ear

A Song of Spider Silk

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Book Excerpt From A Most Remarkable Creature

Slingshot Spiders Pull More Gs than Cheetahs Do

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This Ogre-Faced Spider Can Hear Prey Through Its Legs

Top Spider Biologist’s Research Under Fire

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Image of the Day: Spider Spotting

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Image of the Day: Spider Sex

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Spider’s Orange Colors Both Lure Prey and Frighten Predators

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Image of the Day: Under the Microscope

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The Alpha-Gal Syndrome Story: How Researchers Traced a Red-Meat Allergy to Ticks

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Fragments of Lyme Disease Bacteria Linked to Liver Dysfunction

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How Cysteine Depletion Drives Cells to Burn Fat 

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Universe 25 Experiment

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Advances in Automated RNA Library Preparation

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Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

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What Causes an Earworm?

Memory-enhancing neural networks may also drive involuntary musical loops in the brain.

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Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

Accelerating Recombinase Reprogramming with Machine Learning

Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

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Multiplexing PCR Technologies for Biopharmaceutical Research

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