After 45 days of munching and growing, the worms are ready to mature. They have a special spinneret that secretes one long continuous filament. That's the silk. The silkworms spin this filament ...

Each type of silk gland is associated with a particular spinneret. No species has all seven, but orb-web weavers have five. Spiders have structures called spinnerets on their abdomen, usually on the ...

Here, we present a non-electrospinning strategy based on our previously reported STEP (Spinneret based Tunable Engineered Parameters) technique 25 to deposit arrays of polymer fibers with uniform ...