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Students at Northwestern University have developed a method for producing spider silk on an industrial scale.  They hope to use the process to break into the bullet proof vest market since the web is stronger and lighter than Kevlar.   via laboratoryequipment: Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/05/silk-better-kevlar

laughingsquid: A Boy And His Atom, Single Molecules Serve as Pixels in The World’s Smallest Animation Unreal!

Cool images of various duplex arrangements: DNA (A, B and Z) and A-RNA.

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