{"id":1321,"date":"2003-08-31T15:36:33","date_gmt":"2003-08-31T19:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/31\/scientists-crack-secret-strength-of-si"},"modified":"2003-08-31T15:36:33","modified_gmt":"2003-08-31T19:36:33","slug":"scientists-crack-secret-strength-of-silk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/31\/scientists-crack-secret-strength-of-silk\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Crack Secret Strength of Silk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a874'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"297\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/silkk.jpg\" width=\"305\" height=\"202\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"230\">\n<p>Humans have relied on silk for more than 2,000 years,but<br \/>\n        scientists have never been able to unravel the mystery of how  silkworms<br \/>\n        produced their incredibly strong fibers. <\/p>\n<p>Now, a Tufts team has figured<br \/>\n        out how, which could have<br \/>\n        far-reaching implications for<br \/>\n        everything from hospital dressings to body armor.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/enews.tufts.edu\/stories\/082903Silk.htm\">from<br \/>\n          the Tufts E-News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humans have relied on silk for more than 2,000 years,but scientists have never been able to unravel the mystery of how silkworms produced their incredibly strong fibers. Now, a Tufts team has figured out how, which could have far-reaching implications &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/31\/scientists-crack-secret-strength-of-silk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}