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Depends on a couple things. If it's just the gel that's conductive, and it doesn't need to be organized in any kind of fashion, then it's likely feasible. If it does need to be organized, as an organ might be, then it is not possible.With the rise of 3D printing technology, I'm optimistic that any sort of biological scaffolding can be solved within a short period of time, we're already doing it with transplanted organs, granted it's pretty primitive at this time, but it's feasible.Still, it sounds possible. Whether or not people actually do this depends on how useful/profitable the jelly would be and how expensive it is to recreate it.

I'm not saying that people don't like the idea of 3D printing or that it won't be popular. I'm saying that people are expecting far more than it can deliver. All they can do as it is is produce models out of a single polymer. It's impressive, but there's a limit to how much you can improve that. At the end of the day the laws of physics still exists and you can't just wish matter into existence.Humans are diploid as they have 2 sets of chromosomes, i.e you should generally have two sets of genes on two sister chromosomes,

Wheat on the other hand are hexaploids, which from what I understand that they can potentially have 6 different version of the same gene,We have no problem making the protein. The challenge lies in the organs that extrude the protein solution into the strands of silk. It's also still cheaper to extract silk protein from cocoons and webs.Yes but that might not be the issue. If the jelly has no real structure to it (like a blob, for example just a soup of stuff like milk which we can make synthetically) then there is no such hurdle and the comparison is weak.

Why bother? For this to work it would have to be a 1 protein system, and at that point why not just sequence the protein directly with mass spec or edman degradation and figure out exactly which gene it is that way? We already have the purified gel, given that this paper was published, and whale sharks were sequenced fairly recently, so if they have the organ it shouldn't be too difficult to find the gene. There may be other sharks with full genome sequences available as well, I don't know.Cloning potentially hundreds of fragments and then trying to come up with a way to tell if the jelly is even being produced would be much more time consuming and costly.