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Re: downsideup post# 54321

Friday, 03/01/2013 10:51:19 PM

Friday, March 01, 2013 10:51:19 PM

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Lets look at what page 46 says...

Transgenic silkworms can be used to express original sequences. A major advantage of this approach is that the harvested product is the finished fiber obtained from the cocoon, unlike silk protein, which must be purified and further processed into fiber (2, 5, 6). Research on this promising approach is ongoing, but several problems must be solved before this system becomes commercially viable.

For instance, the inner core of the silk thread produced via transgenic silkworms is still mainly composed of the original Bombyx /non-fibroin with only a small amount of spider-silklike protein (less than 6% w/w). This concentration is too low to obtain the desired mechanical properties of high performance silk threads. (7).

Also, spinning experiments have shown that post drawing of the fiber, mimicking the way a spider pulls dope from the gland, is necessary to obtain good fiber performance. Once the fiber has dried, it cannot be drawn (silk worms are not capable of drawing), and therefore will likely remain inferior.[/quote]
So they say Silkworms have...
an advantage,
that the harvested product is finished and
it is Promising approach.

As for your "few" and their "several" issues ...Red being the problem and blue being the part that is not true. Apparently they misses the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a peer-reviewed scientific article describing the breakthrough creation of a spider silk fusion fiber.
Let me quote Kim because he says it best IMO


these composite fibers were, on average, tougher than the parental silkworm silk fibers and as tough as native dragline spider silk fibers.


So the National Academy of Sciences says you are wrong.

As for the second "problem" the silkworm will always be inferior to a spider when drawing silk but apparently they dont have to be drawn to be superior.
And a spider wimm never be superior in production of silk.

So what can I say except you are wrong.

Why do you suppose amsilk would say something like that about a competitor when the National Academy of Sciences has stated otherwise?

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