THIS is a companion volume to the one on “The Structure of the Cotton Fibre,” which was reviewed in these columns in July, 1908, and is to be followed by a third volume dealing with the silk ...

The axon is surrounded by multilamellar structure of myelin. (E) Myelinated nerve fiber reproduced in vitro by coculture of rat dorsal root ganglion neurons and Schwann cells. Myelin segments are ...

When spiders spin their webs, they use their hind legs to pull silk threads from their spinnerets. This pulling action doesn't just help the spider release the silk, it's also a crucial step in ...

Researchers have proposed a new solid-core photonic crystal fibre, based on computer simulations, that, on paper, performs ...

While the fibre structure of eucalyptus differs from other trees, such as pine and spruce, Spinnova technology fashions it into the same quality textile fibre as from other trees. In the factory, the ...