[PrairieLady2]

That’s a awesome break-through! I hope it holds solid promise for the repair of nerve tissue..think spinal damage! Sans mouse parts of course.

[Alex Murphy]

The research method mixed spider silk with connective fibroblast cells from mice to generate a so-called “bio ink” or gel. Fibroblasts typically begin wound repairs. When extruded from a 3-D printer, the silk molecules quickly wrapped those cells, giving them a porous matrix in which to flourish, the team said. …

Afterwards, the cells were liquefied and consumed.

[Daffynition]

Serrapeptase comes to mind.

[BipolarBob]

I remember that movie with Jeff Goldblum about this.

[DCBryan1]

DARPA made some spider silk armor...a few square inches for almost $1mm. It would stop .30-06 AP IIRC.

[Gumdrop]

Yay for the Bavarians. Ein prosit!

[a fool in paradise]

I know a blues guitarist who had a finger tip cut off. His mother wrapped it back on with a spider web and it held in place. It was crooked but it worked.

http://www.chron.com/entertainment/music/article/Earl-Gilliam-sings-lives-the-blues-1725886.php

Earl Gilliam avoided the hospital for 78 years. Two of his brothers died in hospitals within a 24-hour span, and that was all the reason he needed to stay away. When he says “my people live a long time,” Gilliam isn’t kidding; his mother ticked to 102. She instilled in him a distrust of doctors.

He holds up his “trigger finger,” a long, brown, spidery digit that has pounded out blues songs on a keyboard for the better part of seven decades. The tip of the finger is positioned at a permanent right angle, the result of a lawn mower accident when he was a kid. “My mother didn’t believe in doctors,” he says. So she reattached the fingertip, splinted it using spider webs as a wrap and soaked it in vinegar. “That’s just the way it healed,” he says, smiling. “Told you, she didn’t believe in doctors.”...