
Special Road Trip - Life Lab
Tumble Science Podcast for Kids
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How to Make Spider Silk Without the Creepy Spiders
An individual spider makes six or seven different kinds of silk. Spider silk is five times as strong as steel, if steel was as thin as a thread of silk. Synthetic biology can be used to make the same thing the spider makes. How do you get the threads? Well, it's like a yeasty molecular mix. It takes a lot of steps until you're able to make clothes out of the stuff.
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