Fritz Vollrath: "Who wouldn't want to study spiders?'
Fritz Vollrath's pioneering studies of spider's silk promise to deliver huge medical benefits in everything from knee replacements to heart transplantsUp on the roof of Professor Fritz Vollrath's lab in the zoology department at Oxford University, there is a makeshift greenhouse in which he nurtures his favourite golden orb web spiders. Walking into the greenhouse is a little like finding yourself inside one of those Damien Hirst vitrines that dramatise fast-forward life and death. The air is frenzied with the buzz of flies and thick with the smell of rotting fruit; look up and dozens of the mature African spiders, three i...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 12, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Tim Adams Tags: Biology Health Technology Features Education The Observer Zoology Biochemistry and molecular biology Science Source Type: news
