31. They used spider silk fibers to create a nerve conduit with Schwann cells and acellularized xenogenic veins. 32. Meanwhile, Nexia Biotechnologies Inc . in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, has already genetically engineered goats to produce spider silk . 33. Spider silk is used in different industries, and its range of applications in biomedicine is increasing every day.34. You could make hundreds of things out of spider silk , if only you could produce enough of it. 35. Web building : Spider silk is made of protein and comes from any of seven types of silk glands. 36. This is believed to be due to antiseptic properties of spider silk ( which is made of protein ). 37. Because spider silk is proteolytically degraded, there is not a shift in pH from the physiological pH during degradation. 38. Instead, Wendt and her team turned to spider silk , which is known to be 5 times stronger than Kevlar. 39. In 2015 researchers incorporated CNTs and graphene into spider silk , increasing its strength and toughness to a new record. 40. Most recently, MBI collaborated with Bolt Threads ( Emeryville, CA ) to produce synthetic spider silk without the spiders.
