{"id":192797,"date":"2024-07-11T13:24:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T18:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/synthetic-biology-is-in-fashion"},"modified":"2024-07-11T13:24:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T18:24:36","slug":"synthetic-biology-is-in-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/synthetic-biology-is-in-fashion","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic Biology is in Fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synthetic-biology-is-in-fashion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spider spidroin revives the silken splendor.<\/p>\n<p>In their quest to make silk powerful again, not by status but rather by thread strength, scientists turned to an arachnoid. Dragline silk, the thread by which the spider hangs itself from the web, is one of the strongest fibers; its tensile strength\u2014a measure of how much a polymer deforms when strained\u2014is almost thrice that of silkworm silk.<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Beyond durable fashion garments, tough silk fibers are coveted in parachutes, military protective gear, and automobile safety belts, among other applications, so scientists are keen to pull on these threads. While traditional silk production relies on sericulture, arachnophobes can relax: spider farms are not a thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spider spidroin revives the silken splendor. In their quest to make silk powerful again, not by status but rather by thread strength, scientists turned to an arachnoid. Dragline silk, the thread by which the spider hangs itself from the web, is one of the strongest fibers; its tensile strength\u2014a measure of how much a polymer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,1506,418,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-food","category-internet","category-military","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}