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TNNurse

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2. We read the article

Reply to BootinUp (Original post)

Fri Sep 22, 2023, 09:56 AM

Sep 2023

One of the problems for commercial production is "the cannibalistic nature of spiders". Apparently, they know silkworm behavior very well but the spiders are a challenge.

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Gene-edited spider silk 6x stronger than bulletproof Kevlar [View all] BootinUp Sep 2023 OP

I'm worried about the bite from this gene edited Spider Pachamama Sep 2023 #1

Its still a silk worm that produces the spider silk BootinUp Sep 2023 #3

We read the article TNNurse Sep 2023 #2

right but they want to use silk worms BootinUp Sep 2023 #4

. Effete Snob Sep 2023 #5

I know next to nothing about making silk. BootinUp Sep 2023 #6