Gene-edited spider silk 6x stronger than bulletproof Kevlar

[BootinUp]

This might actually work!

[Pachamama]

1. I'm worried about the bite from this gene edited Spider

[BootinUp]

3. Its still a silk worm that produces the spider silk

as I understand it.

[TNNurse]

2. We read the article

One of the problems for commercial production is "the cannibalistic nature of spiders". Apparently, they know silkworm behavior very well but the spiders are a challenge.

[BootinUp]

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.”

[Effete Snob]

5. .

https://www.peta.org/about-peta/faq/whats-wrong-with-silk/

Silk is the fiber that silkworms weave to make cocoons. To obtain silk, distributors boil the worms alive inside their cocoons. Anyone who has ever seen worms startle when their dark homes are uncovered must acknowledge that worms are sensate—they produce endorphins and have a physical response to pain.

Humane alternatives to silk—including nylon, milkweed seed pod fibers, silk-cotton tree and ceiba tree filaments, polyester, and rayon—are easy to find and usually less expensive, too.

[BootinUp]

6. I know next to nothing about making silk.

and even though that information is probably correct, I am not sure I would trust the source. Still, thanks for the info.