Spider silk

spin synthetic spider silk, like Batman does. These Swedish scientists are Anna Rising and Jan Johansson. The two biochemists came together to study the natural ability that spiders undergo. The spider silk protein is similar to a lengthy chain, containing three parts. The longest part of the protein has pieces that repeat themselves. Randy Lewis, a biochemist, explains the long part of the protein as “stacked Lego blocks connected by springs. The Lego-stack provides strength. The springy sections give the material elasticity, or stretch” (Kowalski, 2017). Rising and her colleagues had to make the synthetic silk-protein through material that would be similar to the starting protein, which is found at the start of the long protein. Rising got the spiders from South Africa. Rising and colleagues conducted research on the spider’s DNA and silk to find out what part of the DNA constructs the silk protein. They utilized the polymerase chain reaction in their experiment to duplicated the DNA segments of the spiders. Then, they put the DNA into small segments that would go inside bacteria easily. The bacteria took the small segments and added it to the DNA, with the ability to produce…

wounded(Ollhoff). As the armor becomes more protective it is also starting to become more discrete. The armor ranges from vests to tuxedos and blankets(Forero). The materials in the armor range from kevlar to the new biosteel. As the old material, kevlar, starts to become outdated, new material like spider silk, liquid armor, and biosteel are starting to become more popular in major bulletproof clothes makers. Kevlar, which was invented in…

Inquiry Project is “Could Spider Silk Be Used To Create Military Grade Body Armour”. This is due to the fact that prior to SIP beginning I had been reading up on the strengths and potential uses of spider silk. Once I had decided that I wanted my question to revolve around spider silk, I began further research on the uses of spider silk and found that it varied from medical uses such as artificial skin and bandages to commercial uses such as airbags in cars. The most interesting potential use…

Spiders are the most atrocious creatures on the planet. The amount of times I came face to face with a spider is unbelievable. I swear, my life flashes before my eyes every time. There was one time in particular where I thought I was going to die; I remember it like it was yesterday. I was surrounded by nothing. It smelled like freshly mowed grass and it felt as hot as an oven. It was the summer of 2014 and my best friend, Lauren, had moved in for a few months. Lauren would visit her…

Inquiry Paper “Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.” ~ Virginia Woolf. For a spider the web is the key part of her existence, spun through individual silk, piece by piece it eventually connects together to form a web that provides life for the spider, a new start. Though weaved with care it does have its limitations in strength, weak and miniature bugs will get caught, but the powerful and big will destroy the web.…

Northern Kentucky Although Spiders provide a plethora of benefits to our community, they continue to be one of the most feared insects not only in the Northern Kentuckian area, but also throughout the world. In this project, I will hopefully come to a conclusion on why people generally fear spiders, which is an actual diagnosis called Arachnophobia. Spiders are in the arachnid class, which is the reason the condition is called Arachnophobia. Arachnophobia is usually defined as an abnormal or…

they are labeled. Depending on where you live in the world, people often have different opinions towards food. Not only does the food have a nutritional value, food often has societal and historical, and religious importance. Some people also believe that by using undisclosed genetically modified food is a violation of ethics. The transplanted gene means the goat produce milk containing an extra protein, which is extracted and spun into spider silk thread. Naturally occurring spider silk is…

To many people, spiders are terrifying. In fact, behind death and public speaking, arachnophobia, the fear of spiders, haunts fifty percent of women and sixteen percent of men (The Wall Street Journal). However, these usually small arachnids are highly underestimated in their capabilities. They are clever, industrious, and inventive, giving them the ability to thrive in many environments. Spiders spin their webs with silk, the strongest known natural fiber. They also have eight eyes, eight long…

Lavinia let out a screech that would have put goosebumps on any person that would have heard it. She flipped on the lights, turned toward the man that had cleared his throat, and began to back away from him towards the back door. “It’s no use trying to run through the back door. I barred it shut from the outside. You really do need to learn to lock the windows of your home, you made it much too easy for me to get inside.” Lavinia immediately recognized the man standing in her home, even though…

those things that many people fear is spiders. There are many different spiders, but one of the most common and least known about is the Brown Recluse or also known as the fiddle back. When bitten by a Brown recluse there are many different outcomes but is it really the slow killer that it is known to be? Some would say that the Brown Recluse is just another spider but studies will show that there is more to the poisonous fiddler. There are many scary things in this world, and one of those…