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November 25, 2008

How to milk a spider

http://www.sciencefriday.com/video/031507/milk.html

Ever wondered how to milk a spider? In this video, Dr. Greta Binford, a researcher at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, extracts venom from a sleeping spider's fangs.

http://www.kgw.com/news/specialreports/stories//kgw_042707_special_news_spider_woman.146f5fbf.html

Greta Binford, however, has slightly less cooperative subjects. Binford collects venom from the world's most dangerous spiders.

Binford jokes she has "the dream job of most 8-year-old boys. I sit and watch spiders catch bugs."

She specializes in the brown recluse spider and its 100 relatives. Currently, her lab at Lewis & Clark College houses 600 spiders collected in the U.S., Africa, Peru and elsewhere. 

http://www.wbtshowcase.com/wbt/web.nsf/pages/pastsummaries.html


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