But one day, it may be possible to fashion a silk bulletproof vest from, of all things, goat's milk. For decades, scientists have been in awe of the lowly spider and the magical material it uses ...

When these transgenic goats have kids and start lactating, the researchers will collect the milk and purify the spider silk protein into “much, much higher quantities,” Lewis said. Other than ...

Now a Canadian company claims to be on the verge of producing unlimited quantities of spider silk - in goat's milk. Using techniques similar to those used to produce Dolly the sheep, scientists at ...