Spinox Ltd (Now Oxford Biomaterials Ltd)
Spinox was set up to fully develop a spinning process to create
high performance fibres from natural or artificial proteins based on
the principles used by spiders and insects to create natural silk fibres.
This approach - biomimetic (mimicking biology) spinning - is based on
patents and expertise from leading spider and silk experts Professor
Fritz Vollrath and Dr David Knight at Oxford's Department of Zoology,
who together published an authoritative overview of natural silk spinning
in the leading science journal Nature.
The company changed its name in 2005 to reflect its increasing focus on biomedical application of silk and related materials.