{"id":567272,"date":"2010-05-17T19:06:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T23:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/?p=10790"},"modified":"2010-05-17T19:06:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T23:06:26","slug":"the-secret-of-the-spider-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/567272","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Of The Spider Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/97936640_a111c6ffbe_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"166\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10793\" \/>Protein is the key and is stored in a gland in the spider&#8217;s body, says researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.  It is divided into three parts, the first of which is identified as NT that makes it maintain the liquid state under neutral pH. The protein passes through a canal where the substance becomes more acidic (ph 6). NT facilitates the spider to convert and rapidly spin threads of silk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have seen how the first part of the spider silk protein has a very special and important function. It quite simply controls when the protein is to be converted into gossamer,&#8221; explained My Hedhammar.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have been attempting to artificially replicate spider silk, one of the strongest elastic materials. It offers great potential in medical technology.   <\/p>\n<p>This development can be read in the journal <em>Nature<\/em> with authors Glareh Askarieh, My Hedhammar, Kerstin Nordling, Anna Rising, Jan Johansson, and Stefan D. Knight. <\/p>\n<p>No related posts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/sevensidedcube\/OXLF\/~4\/_MXsaln566E\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protein is the key and is stored in a gland in the spider&#8217;s body, says researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. It is divided into three parts, the first of which is identified as NT that makes it maintain the liquid state under neutral pH. The protein passes through a canal where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}