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Genetically Engineered Silkworms Spin Spider Silk

Posted by timothy on from the waiting-for-the-spider-silk-boxers dept.

disco_tracy writes "Silkworms have been modified to produce spider silk, creating a fabric that could be used in everything from bulletproof clothing to artificial tendons." For some reason, this is far less revolting to me than the idea of spider silk being milked out of goats.

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  1. anyone got an Athlon II X4, please test it! by Blue+Shifted · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    testing for singlethreaded performance.....

    if you have an Athlon II X4 of any speed, please run:

    cpumark99 on it (if you can find it), and you might get the fastest score in safe mode...

    the java benchmark from NIST on it http://math.nist.gov/scimark2/run.html

    and if you can get calc.exe from windows XP, time a factorial of 100,000!

    (the factorial function in the new calculator that comes with win7 chokes on big factorials, and all the scores i've accumulated are using calc.exe from xp)