SUMMARY: A zoologist by the name of Vollrath, has been studying spiders for more than 30 years and continues to research his love on top of Oxford University in a covered greenhouse. Within the greenhouse spiders, almost 40 of them, live peacefully in dense foliage and sun light. Here Vollrath is able to understand and study the organism. What he has learned has changed many fields including architecture, space travel, and the largest being medicine. Today the discoveries he is making are being used in the bandage branch PF things. What he has learned is that spider web is biodegradable and biocompatible with most living things, making it the perfect dressing to most wounds. In fact he sawed that web could even be taken straight from the spider and it would dissolve as the wound healed.
ANALYSIS: Because of this discovery scientists including Vollrath, may now have an alternative bandage supply. One that takes little energy to make (on he spiders part) and one that creates little to no waste. Another benefit is that the waste created is also decomposable making it the perfect alternative to plastic band-aids and such.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/24/health/healing-powers-of-a-spiders-web/index.html
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