A goat that produces spider's web protein is about to revolutionize the materials industry.
Up to now it has been impossible to produce "spider fibre" on a commercialscale. Unlike silk worms, spiders are too anti-social to farm successfully. Now a Canadian company claims to be on the verge of producing unlimitedquantities of spider silk - in goat's milk. Using techniques similar to those used to produce Dolly the sheep, scientists at Nexia Biotechnologies in Quebec have bred goats with spidergenes.
BBC article with more details click here.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/889951.stm
And who would have thought that Dolly's being would end up with crossing a goat with a spider?
TIC.... Does this mean we'll find there are goats the size of a spider who can be house pets or house pests? (We have to have a daily chuckle and here's mine... visualizing pet goats living in spider webs in the house!)
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