text: is the concept of spider-man real through our technology of genetic engineering and gene splicing?   i don't think so.  for one thing, even if one could transfer the genetic materials correctly, there is no way a human could have the "proportional strength of a spider" or ant or anything like that. the physical nature of muscules will not scale up like that. the strongest one could get is, well, as strong as the strongest human, whoever that is.  the web material seems fictional as well. for one thing, what sort of glad (or tiny device) could generate so much material without either (1) lots of refills, (2) a huge tank.