Cheryl Hayashi Quotes


Some spider silks are really strong, but not all of them are. The ones that are really strong can actually rival steel and approach the tensile strength of Kevlar. Thus far, the dragline silk seems to be the strongest.


Citations

"Ask the Expert: Cheryl Hayashi." NOVA scienceNOW, PBS, 26 July 2005.

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Cheryl Y. Hayashi is a biologist who specializes in the evolution and functional properties of spider silk. She is a curator, professor, and director of comparative biology research at the American Museum of Natural History, while also serving as the director of the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics. She was a graduate of Yale University, a professor at University California Riverside, and a 2007 MacArthur Fellow.