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// Production of spider silk in ''E. coli''.
 
// Production of spider silk in ''E. coli''.
Nova2011 Nova's ‘Making Stuff’ Explores Spinning of Steel-Strength Spider Silk [http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science-jan-june11-nova_01-19/ (Video 5 min)]  
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// Shows the largest piece of spider silk textile in the world and talks about 'spider goats'.
 
// Shows the largest piece of spider silk textile in the world and talks about 'spider goats'.
 
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Revision as of 20:14, 22 March 2015

Silk fibers spun from recombinant protein expressed in 'E. coli' [1].

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The fibre spun with the native-sized recombinant spider silk protein showed similar mechanical properties to native spider silk, thus opening the possibility of its wide range of industrial and biomedical applications. [1].

Required Reading/Viewing

Error fetching PMID 20660779:
  1. Error fetching PMID 20660779: [Xia2010]
    Production of spider silk in E. coli.
  2. Nova's ‘Making Stuff’ Explores Spinning of Steel-Strength Spider Silk (5 min) [Nova2011]
    Shows the largest piece of spider silk textile in the world and talks about 'spider goats'.

Assigned Papers

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  1. Error fetching PMID 25240674: [Zhong2014]
    Mussel adhesion proteins on 'E. coli'
  2. Error fetching PMID 24194735: [Dhami2013]
    Self-healing concrete
  3. Error fetching PMID 10066830: [Madison1999]
    Bioplastics
  4. silk [Spider]
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