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  TED: Cheryl Hayashi: The magnificence of spider silk - Cheryl Hayashi (2010)

  Posted: December 7th, 2011, 10:50am EST by TEDTalks

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  Cheryl Hayashi studies spider silk, one of nature's most high-performance materials. Each species of spider can make up to 7 very different kinds of silk. How do they do it? Hayashi explains at the DNA level -- then shows us how this super-strong, super-flexible material can inspire.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDTalks_video/~4/XIyaxPu7UYU" height="1" width="1"/