Cow Used in Man-Made Spider
Cow Used in Man-Made Spider Web
A Montreal biotech company and the U.S. Army say they've developed the first man-made spider silk, made from mammal cell cultures of a cow, with properties similar to the real thing. Nexia's BioSteel fibers will be used for commercial products such as medical sutures, biodegradable fishing lines and soft body armor. Nexia and the Army jointly published their ground-breaking research Thursday in the journal Science.
Picking the bugs off one's spider silk body armor should be fun.