This company made a jacket out of microbe-made spider silk

Grist
By Suzanne JacobsNov 19, 2015, 6:49 pm180 pts
It’s been more than 50 years since the Marvel Universe gave us the amazing Spider-Man. And now, countless comics, TV series, movies, books, and toys later, synthetic biology has given us Spiber, a Japanese biotech company that’s about to put Peter Parker’s little shtick to shame. That’s right —…

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