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Extolling the many virtues of spider silk is something of a trend these days, as the fine yet remarkably hardy material continues to best even the strongest synthetic materials (a good spider silk weave is supposedly four times stronger than Kevlar). But this latest application makes transgenic, spider silk-producing goats seem simple by comparison: A bioengineered skin so tough that it stops a speeding bullet from penetrating. 
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Horizon presenter Adam Rutherford looks at the advances in synthetic biology and genetic engineering that have resulted in, among other things, computer-made life forms and cancer assassin cells...
Josh COok's curator insight,
November 13, 2014 10:29 AM
This is absolutely amazing. Having goats that make silk that we can use as a product for many things including medicine is remarkable. If we do this with other animals, who knows what we could get animals to make that we can harvest and use. |
