Fibres, the property made in the pull.

Spider silk seen at the protein, and the fruit that makes the brightest colour in nature with no pigment.

This shelf is for members

Everything on this shelf is for members of The Reading Room. The full Readings on fibres, starting with the primer. To read them, become the library member.

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This is the founding rate. It closes when the twelfth Reading is published. If you join now, you keep this rate for as long as your membership stays active.

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The Reading Room is the Biodesign Academy library. Each week, one new Reading takes a living material down to the molecule doing the work.

  •   Every Reading on fibres, and on the other seven living matters, with a new one each week
  •   The material primers, each one built from the molecule up
  •   The Reading Room podcast, with one episode for each Reading
  •   The members channel in the community, to talk a Reading through with other readers