Stronger than steel

spider silk DNA and the quest for better bulletproof vests, sutures, and parachute rope

Discusses the work scientists are doing with the golden orb weaver spider, whose web silk is nearly indestructible, and genetically engineered goats, whose milk contains the proteins needed to artificially spin the spider silk and produce it in a quantity that will make it realistic to use in health care, in body armor, in parachutes, and much more.

Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
2013
9780547681269
book
Lexile: 
860

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