By Maegan Diep, Class of 2029 Figure 1.  An image of a spider on the web. Spider silk has served as an inspiration for a bio-engineered silk-based material in the textile industry. Its protein-based material opens possibilities for it to be designed to incorporate different functionalities, including different colors. In order to achieve intrinsically colored artificial spider silk, researchers from Sweden decided to investigate the … Continue reading Translating Spider Silk to Textiles: Intrinsically Colored Silk Fibers via Fusion Proteins