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Now all they have to do is engineer goats to produce this silk from their nipples.
by bitwize 3y ago
Now all they have to do is engineer goats to produce this silk from their nipples.
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- mkl 3y agoThat was all over the news back in 2010: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=spider+silk+goat+milk&atb=v279-1__&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=spider+silk+goat+milk&atb=v279-1__... I wondered what had happened to it, and found this 2019 article: https://www.genengnews.com/topics/genome-editing/crispr-silkworms-make-spider-silk-that-defies-scientific-constraints/ https://www.genengnews.com/topics/genome-editing/crispr-silk..., discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22920275 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22920275 (just submitted it again at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37628641 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37628641)