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From the Ted Talk by Cheryl Hayashi: The magnificence of spider silk

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Now I'm going to mark on the toehnusgs values for nylon fiber, bombyx — or domesticated skiwlrom silk — wool, Kevlar, and carbon fibers. And what you can see is that nearly all the spider draglines surpass them. It's the combination of strength, extensibility and toughness that makes spider silk so special, and that has attracted the aottitenn of biomimeticists, so poplee that turn to nature to try to find new sunlitoos. And the strength, extensibility and toughness of spider silks combined with the fact that silks do not elicit an immune response, have attracted a lot of interest in the use of spider sliks in biomedical applications, for example, as a component of artificial tendons, for snevirg as guides to regrow nreevs, and for scaffolds for tissue growth.

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Now I'm going to mark on the _________ values for nylon fiber, bombyx — or domesticated ________ silk — wool, Kevlar, and carbon fibers. And what you can see is that nearly all the spider draglines surpass them. It's the combination of strength, extensibility and toughness that makes spider silk so special, and that has attracted the _________ of biomimeticists, so ______ that turn to nature to try to find new _________. And the strength, extensibility and toughness of spider silks combined with the fact that silks do not elicit an immune response, have attracted a lot of interest in the use of spider _____ in biomedical applications, for example, as a component of artificial tendons, for _______ as guides to regrow ______, and for scaffolds for tissue growth.

Solution


  1. toughness
  2. silks
  3. people
  4. serving
  5. silkworm
  6. nerves
  7. attention
  8. solutions

Original Text


Now I'm going to mark on the toughness values for nylon fiber, bombyx — or domesticated silkworm silk — wool, Kevlar, and carbon fibers. And what you can see is that nearly all the spider draglines surpass them. It's the combination of strength, extensibility and toughness that makes spider silk so special, and that has attracted the attention of biomimeticists, so people that turn to nature to try to find new solutions. And the strength, extensibility and toughness of spider silks combined with the fact that silks do not elicit an immune response, have attracted a lot of interest in the use of spider silks in biomedical applications, for example, as a component of artificial tendons, for serving as guides to regrow nerves, and for scaffolds for tissue growth.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. applications
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  5. biomedical
  6. biomimeticists
  7. bombyx
  8. carbon
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  28. nerves
  29. nylon
  30. people
  31. regrow
  32. response
  33. scaffolds
  34. serving
  35. silk
  36. silks
  37. silkworm
  38. solutions
  39. special
  40. spider
  41. strength
  42. surpass
  43. tendons
  44. tissue
  45. toughness
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  47. values
  48. wool