September 3, 2014
Sweater and scarf made from 99.6 percent silkworm silk and 0.4 percent spider silk (photo by
Yoshihiko Kuwana et al., PLOS One)
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Along Came a Spider Sweater
Textile Tech
Researchers at Japan's National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences and Shinshu University created silk fibers from silkworms that had been engineered with spider genes.
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