Spider man is about to be challenged.
this isn't a joke.
There's a guy who's taken the web making proteins from a spider, given the DNA to a goat's egg, waited for the goat to grow up, bred the goat, then after the goat gave birth collected it's milk to see if the same web protein was being made by the goat..... And it was.
The milk is then processed to remove the protein and the result is the sticky stuff that spiders use to make their webs.... Science is amazing, but scary... And not nearly as efficient as God's planning. They still haven't figured out how to process the separated protein into strands equal in strength to that which a spider produces... And it took them a few trys to gestate a female goat with the implanted DNA... The plan is to weave the resulting strands into bullet-proof vests.
Beyond Invention: Animal Inspired Innovations
Jeffrey Turner is a genetic mastermind who stops bullets by splicing spiders with goats; This episode airs at the following times (Eastern) :
Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 1:00 PM
Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 1:00 PM
Let me tell you, I love the discovery channel.
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