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The article mentions a collabirator, Fritz Vollrath, who is a leading researcher at Oxford Biomaterials. They have been performing physical modifications on silkworms for years to change how they spin their silk to give it different properties for medical applications.

The article also mentions that it was published in a scientific journal last month, but you have to pay if you want to see the whole thing: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.biomac.5b00732