Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

[jazz710]

I totally respect the possibility that you are correct there. If pure spider silk offers new, and desirable, characteristics to the partners it something that should be looked into.

True purity though, as a concept, would require such an extensive understanding of the protein structure, content, and layout of the natural webs, including an understanding of the inherent variation within. Biology is often much more fuzzy than perfectly repeating blocks, and that variation is just as important as knowing the overall pattern. My experience as a biologist tells me that the only way to get 'pure' spider silk is to let the spider spin it. We can almost never measure up to what natural selection has been working on and perfecting for millions of years.

EDIT: To clarify, just because I don't think it's tenable doesn't mean I don't think you're right in that some people ARE in fact waiting for that. I only question whether they should.