Nice article, Nate, about one of my favourite subjects -bio-synthetic spider silk !
a couple of comments:
Spiber Technologies in Stockholm is using e.coli, I believe. They have many scientific publications that you can find searching with author name Anna Rising.
Eliminate animal origin is indeed one of the important implications, though the transgenic silk worms and goats (wow, someone took those over?? It started with Nexia in Canada, I believe) fall out of that category.
Enjoyed reading about Spintex, I had not seen them before. I believe spinning is indeed one of the key operations in developing biosynthetic spider silks with a range of interesting properties (the way spiders and the Spiderman do).
Bolt Threads seemed to have "parked" their spider silk product. Do you have any recent information about what they will do with it?
Nice article, Nate, about one of my favourite subjects -bio-synthetic spider silk !
a couple of comments:
Spiber Technologies in Stockholm is using e.coli, I believe. They have many scientific publications that you can find searching with author name Anna Rising.
Eliminate animal origin is indeed one of the important implications, though the transgenic silk worms and goats (wow, someone took those over?? It started with Nexia in Canada, I believe) fall out of that category.
Enjoyed reading about Spintex, I had not seen them before. I believe spinning is indeed one of the key operations in developing biosynthetic spider silks with a range of interesting properties (the way spiders and the Spiderman do).
Bolt Threads seemed to have "parked" their spider silk product. Do you have any recent information about what they will do with it?
I don't know, i find Spintex too secretive of their ingredients. And those that hide, have something to hide...