“After 40 years working with spiders, the German-born zoologist has developed a deep appreciation of their near-miraculous powers.
Spiders create webs by spinning liquid protein into silk that is pound-for-pound stronger than steel, yet extremely flexible. The highly efficient process requires little energy, and many spiders recycle by eating and spinning a fresh web each day.
Vollrath's mission is to harness the spider's powers for use inside human bodies, and he is creating silk implants that could transform regenerative medicine.” Vollrath believes that the spiders silk could be turned into a medicinal implant to replace lost cartilage as well as to coat broken bones to insure they don't break again. This is another very large step in medical science. The iron lung of the 1940’s and 50’s was a very large step in medicine when it was first created to help children continue to breathe after they had contracted polio. Personally, I am kind of freaked out about spiders but as long as the patient doesn't have to be bit or induced with a radio active substance I am all for this!http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/24/health/healing-powers-of-a-spiders-web/index.html
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