{"id":91695,"date":"2019-06-06T11:02:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T18:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/first-ever-spider-glue-genes-sequenced-paving-way-to-next-biomaterials-breakthrough"},"modified":"2019-06-06T11:02:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T18:02:44","slug":"first-ever-spider-glue-genes-sequenced-paving-way-to-next-biomaterials-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/first-ever-spider-glue-genes-sequenced-paving-way-to-next-biomaterials-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"First-ever spider glue genes sequenced, paving way to next biomaterials breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-ever-spider-glue-genes-sequenced-paving-way-to-next-biomaterials-breakthrough2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UMBC postdoctoral fellow Sarah Stellwagen and co-author Rebecca Renberg at the Army Research Lab have published the first-ever complete sequences of two genes that allow spiders to produce glue\u2014a sticky, modified version of spider silk that keeps a spider\u2019s prey stuck in its web. The findings appeared in Genes, Genomes, Genetics.<\/p>\n<p>The innovative method they employed could pave the way for others to sequence more silk and glue <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/genes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">genes<\/a>, which are challenging to sequence because of their length and repetitive structure. Better understanding of these genes could move scientists closer to the next big advance in biomaterials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-06-first-ever-spider-genes-sequenced-paving.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMBC postdoctoral fellow Sarah Stellwagen and co-author Rebecca Renberg at the Army Research Lab have published the first-ever complete sequences of two genes that allow spiders to produce glue\u2014a sticky, modified version of spider silk that keeps a spider\u2019s prey stuck in its web. The findings appeared in Genes, Genomes, Genetics. The innovative method they [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}