I am not saying that there will be or needs to be a spider silk suture. Chances are it would be easier to make regular silk from a platform organism to make sutures with antibiotics in them. As for putting ointment on an injury in the field. You obviously have not been in the military. The one thing for sure in any armed forces is your pack is always too heavy and you never have enough stuff. If you can lose a tube of ointment and carry a string you are doing good.
Understand mojo, there are places in this world where life is not easy like you have it here. Doctors in third world countries need all forms of medication. Sutures with antibiotic on them could save arms legs and lives in a place where an infection from a scratch can kill you. Anyone who opens their eyes can see the uses for all sorts of silk products.
Can KBLB do it?
THEY ALREADY HAVE.
That is something you dont seem to see either. KBLB has already done what you are calling an "IF".
IF they can make spider silk
IF they can modify the silk to have new properties
IF they can find a use for it
IF,IF,IF
Mojo it is WHEN now.
They have modified a platform organism. It is called a silkworm. They have spider silk.
They have uses for it.
IF they can produce it in mass. I think that is already proven to be an easy thing to do. It has been done for centuries.
Remember Alexander G Bell? he made a phone once that could only be heard if you shouted into it. It was refined. Now we have cell phones.
If you do not see that we have our "phone" and now we are refining it, you are blind. Intentionally or otherwise
News 
Market Data 
Discover 
AI
