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That 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
by mkl 3y ago
That 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)