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Rising, A.); (Lower Left) Scanning electron micrograph of the point of breakage after tensile testing of a recombinant fibre (from Stark et al., 2007); (Lower Right) Helical wheel presentation of the five predicted -helices in the spider silk N-terminal domain (from Rising et al., 2006).

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to investigate the dyeability of silk fabrics with Humulus japonicus (Hwansam) extract which is a kind of weeds that grows wild in the suburbs. In the research, the general extract method was conducted with the extract from fresh herb of root-removed Humulus

Copyright © 2013 Yu Liu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The rapid manufacture of silk fibroin gels in mild

for d fi ot an mo be s m ls a rys oly Natural silk fibers share a common structural architecture experimentally not easily accessible. Computational studies a combination pioneered by Cleri et al. (25) and Serebrinsky et al. (26) for other nonbiological materials like inorganic*Correspondence:

The pheromone binding protein from the silk moth Antheraea polyphemus is located in the sensillum lymph of antennal hair of the male moth species. It is believed to be a carrier protein, responsible for the transport of volatile, hydrophobic sex pheromones to the chemosensory membranes of olfactory

* I would like to thank Rebecca Henderson, Bob Gibbons, Simon Johnson, and Tom Kochan for their input and advice, as well as for generous financial support for the data collection. Much appreciated was Al Silk’s knowledge of and enthusiasm for the advertising industry, Fahad Kajani’s research

in diverse pharmacological capacities as well as in biomedical and biotechnological fields [9-11]. Recently, studies have reported the benefits of SP treatment on endurance exercise in rodent models [12,13]. Shin et al. [12] demonstrated that in mice, * Correspondence:

This article describes the Adaptive Control of Thought–Rational (ACT–R) cognitive architecture (Anderson et al., 2004; Anderson & Lebiere, 1998) and its detailed application to the learning of algebraic symbol manipulation. The theory is applied to modeling the data from a study by Qin

materials (Gosline et al., 1986). However, almost all research on spider silk mechanics has been conducted upon silks spun by only a few species of spiders, all of which construct similar types of orb webs. Orb webs, flat wheel-shaped aerial nets, are remarkable architectural structures that function