The more toxic the chemical, the more deformed the web, says NASA, who hope to use spiders in place
of other lab animals.
The simmering controversy over experiments on primates and
other lab animals could heat up wherever there are attempts to impose undue restrictions.
Macaques are close genetic relatives to humans, making the monkeys better analogs than
other lab animals.
That is harder in mosquitoes than it is in fruit flies or
other lab animals.