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Silkworm

Hangzhou is famous for silk. We wish to let engineered bacterial produce silk proteins, just like lovely silkworm. A machine which can make threadlike things with the proteins will be used to make silk.

Reference:

1. "Morphology and primary crystal structure of a silk-like protein polymer synthesized by genetically engineered Escherichia coli bacteria"

(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bip.360340808/abstract)

2. "Biotechnological Production of Spider-Silk Proteins Enables New Applications"

(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mabi.200600255/full)