Native-like spider silk produced in metabolically engineered bacterium

Tuesday, July 27, 2010 - 14:21 in Biology & Nature

Bio-molecular engineers have developed technology to artificially create spider dragline silk proteins that can be used to make ultra-strong synthetic fibers and bulletproof vests.

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