Got Silk? -- Biotech Applications

[frozenlabyrinth]

this is sooo awesome!!

[broughton75]

its funny how they can try to justify making it right... but chaos insues we will only ourselves to blame

[etgon]

I

told my science teacher this. She didnt like it.

[meatisdeliciouse]

I wish they would genetical alter humans so they never got colds or cold sores. I hate seing people with a cold sore and I avoid them like the plague. When nano technology is avilible or some GM virus killer I want to see cold HIV and cold sores wiped out forever. Can you genetical engenear a killer of varucas? Maybe nonos could destroy all traces of them forever: ) How strong is spiders web compared to high tensile steel?

[quiettornado1970]

@meatisdeliciouse just eat garlic to prevent yourself from getting colds. I only get minor colds once a year and they only last two days.

[RonPaulSwede]

This is so stupid, no one knows what can happen they just do it.

To play with this is like a cave monkey assembling a computer, it fumbles until it thinks it should work. Wow, we are stupid.

[bleeper2147]

Bedbugs transfer genes from one animal to another. Want your offspring to have some spider genes?

[EliteDWB]

@researchOne23 and plus it stops bullets. what more could a man want haha.

[shitpickle1128]

coool

[Sacksyj]

That is all FALSE information....the spiders CAN live together, and do not kill each other.

[weiholau]

name spiders that live on the same web in harmony.

[mchfltchr]

@Sacksyj

There are in fact some species of spider that are not cannibals, in fact one species, Theridion nigroannulatum, a small spider which inhabits Ecuador form cooperative communities. Yet only a fraction of a percent of the 39,000 identified spider species have been known to cooperate. So it is safe to say that, in general, spiders are cannibals. The spiders that are being studied for their silks' unique qualities such as the golden orb spider and the black widow are cannibals.

[rice0067]

The goats are dead and so is the company!

[ShirabukiSara]

Can someone send me a website talking about the controversy?

[doubleg137]

Spidergoat... spidergoat! does whatever a spidergoat does!

[sn9696]

This is very dangerous!!

[goldensleeves]

Well, it's not that it is or is not dangerous. I mean, a baseball bat can be dangerous if somebody wants to beat you up but they could also save your life if you're being attacked. So, you can't really say something is really dangerous for its own sake. It just depends on how we use it.

I'm curious what you mean by dangerous here though. What is so dangerous about it? What is something bad that you think could happen as a result of genetic manipulation? What specifically scares you here?

[Vaultboy101]

I'm saving up for my trip to the The Island of Doctor Moreau.

[epiphsg828]

Where can i buy some Goat Silk? I want some for a project of mine.

[id10tangoed]

You can't yet, but I heard that they're making a goat's milk spider silk soap... so that's cool

[lyles32386]

Its a bird, its a plane, its the freakin' spider goat!

[lumpfish99]

it jus aint natral I say, jus aint natral like....I seen em, I seen up ther in the hills, spider monkey an kids walkin aroun wid green hair and bones thro they noses....jus aint natral....

[joopq]

"its hard for me to imagine that theres any difference in a goat with or without the trannsgene in it" -anonymous sciencey guy. well either your lying or dumb. we dont understand the immense complexity and arent able to measure the repurcussions of changing natures perfect electromagnetic structure so we make up excuses to do what we want. "whateva, i do what i want! my mom doesnt rule me, whateva jerry!" this is irresponsible astronomically, for what? stronger silk? convenience? sigh

[id10tangoed]

There's no difference, except for the lactating females produce potentially life saving silk as well as milk. I have no idea what you mean by electomagnetic structure of life, sounds like health food store psuedo science, trying to make your point sound more scientific maybe?