New technologies for production of recombinant spider silk

Natural spider silk cannot be harvested on a commercial scale due to the spiders' cannibalistic nature. Recombinant spider silk provides a scalable alternative to traditional silk production by using microbial fermentation of spider silk proteins, overcoming the challenge of farming spiders, thereby making spider silk – a holy grail of biomaterials – available on a large scale. This biotechnology-based approach replicates the properties of natural spider silk for diverse applications, includ