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"U.S. researchers have created silkworms that are genetically modified to spin much with greater reason silk (abstract). In weight-for-weight terms, spider silk is more than ever than steel. ... Researchers have been trying to reproduce such silk for decades. But it is unfeasible to 'farm' spiders for the trade


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ti-d plug holderenergy sav preparation of their silk because the arachnids don't produce enough of it — coupled with their proclivity for eating each other. Silk worms, however, are easy to farm and produce vast amounts of silk — but the stuff is fragile. Researchers have tried for years to get the best of both worlds — super-strong silk in llc.view results from: wordbook


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share this: quantities — by transplanting genes from spiders into worms. But the resulting genetically modified worms have not produced enough spider silk until now. GM worms produced by a team led by teacher Don Jarvis of Wyoming health center seem to be producing a mixture of worm and spider silk in large amounts — which the researchers say is just as tough as spider silk."

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