Re:Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with...
by thaumasiotes on Thursday May 07, 2015 @06:47AM
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> Who would have guessed this would work?
A lot of people? The carbon has to end up somewhere. I don't see this as surprising at all, any more than it's surprising that if you, a human, eat a lot of arsenic, you'll add some of it to your hair. Growing hair and growing silk are not fundamentally different activities.
A lot of people? The carbon has to end up somewhere. I don't see this as surprising at all, any more than it's surprising that if you, a human, eat a lot of arsenic, you'll add some of it to your hair. Growing hair and growing silk are not fundamentally different activities.