Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - DW - 20180118:07:32:00
Researching potential industrial applications for a super silk. we've made some decisive breakthroughs first we managed to recreate the raw material both in terms of mechanical properties and scalability that means it could be made on an industrial scale second we made the thread and not just any threat we made thread the way spiders make it with all the properties it has in nature or maybe even slightly better ones. scheibel develop the process using gut bacteria that have been genetically modified to produce silk proteins the silk is spun out of disproved. that happens when a phosphate compo...