The silk solution: why surgeons are turning to spiders to repair nerve injuries

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Spider silk has always had a certain reputation: impossibly strong, faintly magical, and mostly reserved for nature documentaries and superhero origin stories. But in a humid lab in Oxford, it is being treated less like a wonder and more like a tool. A tool that might help surgeons solve […] The post The silk solution: why surgeons are turning to spiders to repair nerve injuries first appeared on The Optimist Daily: Making Solutions the News.