• Thanks to scientists in Sweden, your dream of shooting spider webs like Spider-Man could become reality!
• Scientists at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Karolinska Institutet say they have developed a technique to create artificial spider silk from bacteria, possibly in large quantities!
• Spider silk is as strong as steel, yet incredibly flexible.
• The science talk? Spidroin genes from 2 spider species are combined, with the resulting hybrid silk protein then inserted into the DNA of bacteria.
• When this is put to use in a newly designed spinning device – BAM, synthetic spider silk!
• It’s believed that the silk could be used for tissue engineering applications, but we all know what it could really be used for!
• The future is now, friends

Read more: 

http://www.livescience.com/57458-strong-spider-silk-produced.html

http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-synthetic-spider-silk-offers-wound-stitching-potential-researchers-say-1484049601

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