Monday, March 17, 2008
Goats mixed with spiders to make goat-spider milk.
A goat that produces spider's web protein is about to revolutionise the materials industry.
Stronger and more flexible than steel, spider silk offers a lightweight alternative to carbon fibre.
Up to now it has been impossible to produce "spider fibre" on a commercial scale. Unlike silk worms, spiders are too anti-social to farm successfully.
Now a Canadian company claims to be on the verge of producing unlimited quantities of spider silk - in goat's milk.
Using techniques similar to those used to produce Dolly the sheep, scientists at Nexia Biotechnologies in Quebec have bred goats with spider genes.
Full Story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/889951.stm
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment