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

by Bridget Heos

Book Overview

In Stronger Than Steel, readers enter Randy Lewis' lab where they come face to face with golden orb weaver spiders, and transgenic alfalfa, silkworm silk, and goats, whose milk contains the proteins to spin spider silk--and to weave a nearly indestructible fiber. Learn how this amazing material might someday be used to repair or replace human ligaments and bones, improve body armor, strengthen parachute rope, and even tether an airplane to an aircraft...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0547681267
• ISBN13: 9780547681269
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 11.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 10 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 7