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Spider Silk Finally Ready For Commercialization

Posted by timothy on from the and-it's-delicious dept.

An anonymous reader writes: We've been hearing about little bits of progress for decades, but spider silk fibers are finally ready to be delivered at commercial scale, thanks to three scientist-founders and large investments ($40M) from SF and SV venture capitalists. Who'll be the first to build a web slinger?

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  1. Not spider thread. Yeast string. by Punko · · Score: 5, Informative

    These folks have come up with an idea to market a threat with some (but not all) the properties of spider silk. Using yeast. While I am more than willing to admit that this material sounds interesting, it is most certainly not spider silk.

    But it's not the first time we've seen an utterly misleading headline in both the article and in the Slashdot post.

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