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Silk from milk? Yeah, that's right. It involves the milk of transgenic goats and ... spiders.
A spider's silk-producing glands and a goat's milk-producing glands are anatomically similar. Every spider cell contains silk- producing genes, so if you grind up some spiders, extract the genes and put them into a goat egg, the resulting baby goat will have a spider gene in each of its cells. The goat will produce what is called "silk-milk" - which looks and tastes like goat's milk, but when tinkered around with in a laboratory will yield a silk concentrate pretty much like what a spider spins.See the full content of this document
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Milk and Soy New Fibers On Knitters' Plates
The fiber can be made into bulletproof materials, used as biodegradable sutures and is being eyed as a potential material for artificial tendons and ligaments.
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