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Stronger than Steel: Spider Silk DNA and the Quest for Better Bulletproof Vests, Sutures, and Parachute Rope

Part of the Scientists in the Field series
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In Stronger Than Steel, readers enter Randy Lewis lab where they come face to face with golden orb weaver spiders, transgenic alfalfa, silkworm silk, and goats, whose milk contains the proteins to spin spider silk - and to weave a nearly indestructible fiber.

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Product Details
Houghton Mifflin
0544932471 / 9780544932470
Paperback / softback
576.5
27/06/2017
United States
English
80 pages : illustrations (colour)
23 x 28 cm
Children / Juvenile Learn More