Spider silk is very tough, stronger than steel, and more tearing-resistant than Kevlar. Spider silk is also very flexible and lightweight; some can be stretched to up to five times its original length before breaking, and silk long enough to circle the globe weighs just over a pound. Spiders are also excellent chemists, often making their silk waterproof and antibacterial. The complex conditions required to replicate and produce spider silk-like fibers are difficult. However, spider silk proteins can be produced through genetic engineering, E. coli, yeast, plants, silkworms, and animals that have different properties from those of spiders. Lifeasible is dedicated to product development services for manufacturing spider silk from goat and sheep milk, obtaining the target spider silk through transgenic technology, and evaluating and characterizing the product.
Due to their small size and small spitting capacity, spiders are difficult to farm to meet the needs of large-scale silk production. The creation of the "spider sheep" solved this paradox by producing half a quart of sheep's milk to spin half an ounce of silk, equivalent to the spitting capacity of 100 spiders. The synthetic gene that produces spider silk protein is transplanted to certain mammals, such as goats and cows, and a special protein is extracted from their milk.
Lifeasible's research department is focused on developing various ways to produce spider silk, including developing spider silk made from genetically modified goat's milk, for which we can provide solutions and a complete set of analytical testing services.
By transplanting spider silk proteins into goat cells, the milk from the genetically modified goats contains the proteins that can produce spider silk. Then using special solvents, continuous fibers can be "extracted" from the goat milk that is comparable in mechanical strength to real spider silk. Artificial spider silk can be used to make various products, and can be naturally degraded without polluting the environment.
We observe the appearance of spider silk made from goat's milk, and test the density, moisture absorption and other physical properties.
Our testing center can test the strength, stiffness, elongation at break, toughness, Young's modulus, and transverse compression properties of this spider silk.
Our company is also engaged in analyzing and testing spider silk made from goat's milk, as well as providing solutions for the development process.
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July 13, 2024
