I’ve always found spiders fascinating. Such little creatures are able to produce material that’s stronger than steel, eating over 2000 insects a year keeping pests under control, and overall just being good for the environment. The world would be a lot worse without those little critters, I’m glad we have them on our planet.
“The way silk proteins undergo phase separation and then form β-sheet-rich structures mirrors mechanisms we see in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s,”
That’s a wild thing to drop and then not elaborate on.
So… the human brain can act like a spider’s spinneret… we just need a way to extrude the human silk instead of letting it gum up our brains.
The cure for Alzheimer’s is harvesting brain silk out our nose is what I’m hearing.
