| 31. | They used spider silk fibers to create a nerve conduit with Schwann cells and acellularized xenogenic veins.
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| 32. | Meanwhile, Nexia Biotechnologies Inc . in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, has already genetically engineered goats to produce spider silk.
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| 33. | Spider silk is used in different industries, and its range of applications in biomedicine is increasing every day.
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| 34. | You could make hundreds of things out of spider silk, if only you could produce enough of it.
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| 35. | Web building : Spider silk is made of protein and comes from any of seven types of silk glands.
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| 36. | This is believed to be due to antiseptic properties of spider silk ( which is made of protein ).
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| 37. | Because spider silk is proteolytically degraded, there is not a shift in pH from the physiological pH during degradation.
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| 38. | Instead, Wendt and her team turned to spider silk, which is known to be 5 times stronger than Kevlar.
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| 39. | In 2015 researchers incorporated CNTs and graphene into spider silk, increasing its strength and toughness to a new record.
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| 40. | Most recently, MBI collaborated with Bolt Threads ( Emeryville, CA ) to produce synthetic spider silk without the spiders.
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