Obtaining Spider Silk from Goats

[Ganoderma]

all i can say is this is some trippy **** B)

 

this been posted before?

 

YouTube - Ms Frankenstein's Spider Goat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgSmt9b6BmA

 

 

BBC News | SCI/TECH | GM goat spins web based future

 

A goat that produces spider's web protein is about to revolutionise the materials industry.

 

Stronger and more flexible than steel, spider silk offers a lightweight alternative to carbon fibre.

 

Up to now it has been impossible to produce "spider fibre" on a commercial scale. Unlike silk worms, spiders are too anti-social to farm successfully.

 

Now a Canadian company claims to be on the verge of producing unlimited quantities of spider silk - in goat's milk.

 

Using techniques similar to those used to produce Dolly the sheep, scientists at Nexia Biotechnologies in Quebec have bred goats with spider genes.

 

 

Lab Spins Artificial Spider Silk, Paving the Way to New Materials

In experiments so far the researchers have produced spider silk by inserting the gene into the genome of cows and hamsters. The company plans to also insert the silk-producing gene into goats with the aim of collecting silk proteins from goat milk.

 

The scientists at Nexia Biotechnology in Quebec reported their new method of creating a type of spider silk, known as "dragline," in the January 18 issue of the journal Science.

[CraigD]

this been posted before?

Yes - at least this post, possibly others.

 

It remains, as Ganoderma says, some trippy ****. :evil: