Golden Silk Spider (Nephila clavipes) (IMAGE)

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Golden Silk Spider (Nephila clavipes)

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Spiders produce amazingly strong and lightweight threads made from silk proteins, which can be used to manufacture useful materials. Researchers succeeded in producing the spider silk using photosynthetic bacteria.

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