[at-l] Futuristic Backpack Material?

[David Addleton]

I've been following this project for several years: the last time I checked
about a year ago, they had trouble meeting deadlines for the military: the
hang-up was in recovering and spinning the protein from the milk. I think
they lost the military
contract:  do you know if they've solved that problem yet?

On 8/8/06, Jan Leitschuh <janl2 at mindspring.com> wrote:
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> It's a brave new world out there, splicing spider silk genes into milk
> goats to produce a material lighter and stronger than Kevlar, stronger than
> steel and stretchier than nylon...
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> http://www.carleton.ca/catalyst/2003/s2.html
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