Here is something incredibly intriguing/scary/amazing/weird...
On the quest to mass produce spider-web silk (the strongest fibre known to man) they are playing more and more with modified genetics. And they have practically succeded!
Here is an introductory article from 2000 > here
or for a more in-depth and up-to-date reading > here
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Spider silk is a material science wonder, "a self-assembling, biodegradable, high-performance, nanofibre structure one-tenth the width of a human hair that can stop a bee travelling at 20 miles per hour without breaking. Spider silk has dwarfed man's achievements in material science to date."
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