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Albuquerque, New Mexico here but likely moving to Detroit really soon.
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This is a very interesting project, any updates @Chironex? I was also curious if you intended on linking individual silk fibers together using transglutaminase or if you have some plan to extract the fibers and spinning them into a thread?
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I'm honestly not sure, though everything I've read on it mentions ingestion or injection.
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The venom is a extracted from the Blue Mountains Funnelweb Spider and the specific extract [Hexatoxin-HV1A] from it is proven to be nontoxic to humans and bees.
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There's also this: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/04/12/1302420110
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I think if this is possible some fiber would still not be digested due to time constraints. After all cows can digest some cellulose but are still able to get things moving through their poop chute.