Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (KBLB.OB) Very Pleased With its Progress
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc., the Michigan-based company pioneering the use of genetic engineering to produce spider silk, recently announced that, during the months of May, June, and July, their scientific team succeeded in its goal to scale up the number of genetic insertions performed. The company has developed an efficient way to insert into silkworms the genetic material used by spiders to produce silk, with the goal of getting silkworms to produce commercially viable spider silk. The team, led by Malcolm J. Fraser, Ph.D., had an initial goal of doubling the number of DNA construct insertions performed in May. As…