Gene-edited spider silk 6x stronger than bulletproof Kevlar

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4. right but they want to use silk worms

“Silkworm silk is presently the only animal silk fiber commercialized on a large scale, with well-established rearing techniques,” said Junpeng Mi, a Ph.D. candidate at the College of Biological Science and Medical Engineering at Donghua University and the first author of the study. “Consequently, employing genetically modified silkworms to produce spider silk fiber enables low-cost, large-scale commercialization.”