- SPIDER GOAT! Not what it really looks like.
Huffington Post has this slide show of genetically engineered creations, and I just have two words for you: SPIDER GOATS!
I knew about the glow-in-the-dark cats, and some of the other things aren’t that weird or surprising and are mostly very cool, but SPIDER GOATS?!
Strong, flexible spider silk is one of the most valuable materials in nature, and it could be used to make an array of products — from artificial ligaments to parachute cords — if we could just produce it on a commercial scale. In 2000, Nexia Biotechnologies announced it had the answer: a goat that produced spiders’ web protein in its milk.
Researchers inserted a spiders’ dragline silk gene into the goats’ DNA in such a way that the goats would make the silk protein only in their milk. This “silk milk” could then be used to manufacture a web-like material called Biosteel.
SPIDER GOATS! AGGGHHHHHH!
Couldn’t this sort of thing wait until after we’ve cured AIDS and cancer and such? Seriously.
Spider-goat, spider goat,
does whatever a spider goat does.
Can he swing from a web?
No, he can’t; he’s a goat.
LOOK OUUUUUUT!
He is a spider-goat.
Yaaaaay spider goats!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-…
@1
Maybe this show will help you see the bigger picture…
This is truly the stuff of nightmares..
@2: It’s comforting to know I wasn’t the only one thinking this.
@2 and 6: I only opened these comments to see if someone already said that. Well played.
@7, me too.
Spider-Goat, Spidergoat,
If you’re bad, he’ll eat your coat…
This news is almost a decade-old at this point. Get with it.
Cheaper salmon FTW