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Originally posted by Corwin
I remember a while back someone managed to splice genes from a spider into.... sheep I think. Either sheep or goats. (Clearly I don't remember specifics, this was some time back.)
Spinnarets aren't all that different from mammary glands physically. (They're different, but not nearly as different as one might think.) So the gist of the article was that they were working on goats that could be 'milked' for silk. This was.... last year? Possibly the year before? And I haven't heard anything since then so I have no idea what's become of it since then. For all I know the goats might have developed horrible mutations and cancers and the whole thing might have gotten quietly swept under the carpet.
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Great my girlfriend will be able to shoot spiderwebs out of her nipples!
02-12-2003, 03:25 PM
