Fashion's New Spider Sense - Life Lab, Pt. 4
Tumble Science Podcast for Kids
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Spider Silk Without the Creepy Spiders?
An individual spider makes six or seven different kinds of silk. The silks have different properties, some are super strong and others stretchy. In fact, spider silk is five times as strong as steel. So can we find a better way to make the same thing the spider makes? And that's where we go to synthetic biology.
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