Artificial spider silk

Artificial spider silk

TOKYO, Japan - Kazuhide Sekiyama, president of bioventure Spiber Inc., stands in Tokyo on May 24, 2013, by a dress made by his company on a trial basis from artificially produced spider silk. The company based in Tsuruoka in Yamagata Prefecture, northeastern Japan, said it has developed technology to mass-produce artificial spider silk for the first time.

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