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W&L’s Ayoub Interviewed in Wired Article Professor Nadia Ayoub was interviewed in a Wired article about her work with spider silk.

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Nadia Ayoub, an associate professor of biology at Washington and Lee University, was interviewed in a Wired article titled “The Race to Put Silk in Nearly Everything.”

Ayoub discusses her research of spiders, particularly black widows, on W&L’s campus. Her research unravels spider silk to study its protein chemistry, which helps researchers design materials that mimic nature.

Read the full article here.

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