Emerging biotech company, Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. was founded by the inventor of the company’s technology, current chief executive officer, Kim Thompson. The company is a fully reporting organization and trades on the over-the-counter market under the stock symbol KBLB. As of last report, there are about 501 million common shares outstanding, with approximately 64% held by the chief executive officer.

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories’ CEO serves as the overall coordinator for the company relative to business operations and ongoing research and development. Several prominent genetic scientists have significantly developed the companies’ technologies. Additionally, the laboratory staffs of these professors are also making significant contributions to the company’s efforts.

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. has a developed intellectual portfolio relating to the harvesting of silk from genetically modified silkworms. The company brings together preeminent researchers in a collaborative effort to produce commercially significant quantities of

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc. is an emerging biotech company with a strong intellectual property portfolio relating to the genetic modification of silkworms to produce spider silk. The company believes that spider silk is a “super fiber” that will have numerous commercial and consumer applications. With spider silk as a base, the company hopes to tap into the $92 billion market for high performance and technical fibers.

Kraig Biocraft announced several months ago that genetic engineer Dr. Bong-Hee Sohn joined the research and development team to develop new high performance polymers using spider silk gene sequences. Dr. Sohn is another major addition to the research team at the company.

Dr. Sohn received her PhD from Kyung-Hee University in South Korea. Her extensive research background includes work in research labs in Japan and South Korea. One of her areas of specialty in genetic engineering is the

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. is a biotechnology company focused on the development of commercially significant high performance polymers and technical fibers. Based on proprietary genetic engineering technology, the company is working to develop and produce polymers and protein-based materials from silkworms and spiders. Kraig Biocraft believes that spider silk is a “super fiber” that will have numerous commercial and consumer applications.

Kraig Biocraft recently announced that scientists have discovered a way to make spider silk three times stronger by adding small amounts of metal. Even though the natural spider-made fiber is already tougher and lighter than steel, this new technique could make it useful for manufacturing super-tough textiles and high-tech medical materials, such as artificial bonds and tendons.

The discovery, published by the journal “Science”, was made by researcher Seung-Mo Lee of the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle, Germany. The breakthrough addition of zinc,

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. is a young company that was founded by the inventor of the company’s technology and its current CEO, Kim Thompson. Mr. Thompson devised the idea for using silkworms to produce unique proteins that could be sold into both the technical textile and pharmaceutical industries. Should he be successful in this endeavor, it is widely believed that he will be considered one of the great geniuses of the biotech industry.

One of the keys to the company’s success will be spider silk. The marketplace has asked the question, what is so exciting about spider silk? The answer is rather complex but may revolutionize the biotech industry. The silk produced by spiders is among the strongest fibers produced in nature. It is also extremely elastic and resilient. Depending upon how measurements are made, spider silk is stronger than Kevlar

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. announced this morning that the scientific team is preparing to significantly increase the number of genetic insertions performed in the month of May. The team believes that the rate of DNA construct insertions in May will be twice the number that has been performed to date. Every targeted insertion has the potential to create a new recombinant fiber with commercial applications.

“We are now entering the next phase in which the team is reallocating recourses to genetic insertion,” stated CEO Kim Thompson. “This is directly related to our recent development of new DNA constructs that are specifically targeted for the production of new fusion silk proteins. We intend to dramatically ramp up the number of insertions performed in order to gain the maximum benefit from the new insertion packets.”

Kraig Biocraft is committed to developing and commercializing high performance polymers using

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. announced this afternoon that scientists have discovered a way to increase the strength of spider silk three-fold by adding small amounts of metal. Even though the spider-made fiber is already tougher and lighter than steel, this new technique could make it useful for manufacturing super-tough textiles and high-tech medical materials.

The discovery was made by researcher Seung-Mo Lee of the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle, Germany. Lee and his colleagues used a process called atomic layer deposition, which not only coated spider dragline silks with metal but also caused some metal ions to penetrate the fibers and react with their protein structure.

According to the press release, the discovery was based on the observation that some insects have traces of metals in their toughest body parts. For example, the jaws of leaf-cutter ants and locusts contain high levels of zinc,

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (KBLB:OB), a biotechnology development company based in Lansing, Michigan, has spent the last 6 months running up an impressive number of achievements in its pursuit of commercially viable spider silk.

The company is using genetic engineering to coax silkworms into producing spider silk, one of nature’s strongest fibers. To do this, scientists had to come up with a way to successfully insert into silkworms the DNA packets containing the unique gene sequence used by spiders to produce silk. Since Kraig Biocraft first obtained the right to use the spider silk gene sequence in this particular field of research, they have surprised many with the progress they’ve made in the endeavor.

Most recently, the company announced that scientists working in the company’s research program at the University of Notre Dame have accomplished substantial increases in the successful insertion of DNA packets. They’ve increased

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc., a Michigan based development stage biotechnology company, is using genetic engineering to develop polymers and high performance fibers for commercial textile and specialty fiber applications. In particular, the company is focused on producing spider silk, one of the strongest fibers produced in nature.

Spider silk is made when spiders spin liquid protein into solid fibers. Spiders can produce a variety of silks, depending upon need, with certain kinds being both strong and flexible. Spider silk has an exceptional ability to absorb and dissipate energy, and, pound for pound, is much stronger than steel. Polymers with the properties of spider silk have long been sought, but spiders, being cannibalistic, cannot be raised in concentrated colonies. For this reason, there is currently no way to produce spider silk in commercial quantities.

But Kraig Biocraft may have finally solved the problem. The company has

It is no mystery that Kraig Biocraft Laboratories is a research and development company. They do not have the infrastructure to immediately compete against the biggest players in the technical textiles market. They do not need to focus on supply chain management or building a large sales and marketing team. This is simply not their goal.

Investors or potential investors should not be alarmed by this “lack of infrastructure” if you will. The long-term performance of one’s investment in this company is based on its response to two fundamental questions: 1) Can Kraig Biocraft harness its spider silk technology into a package that can be readily used in commercial applications, and 2) Does Kraig Biocraft have the intellectual property rights behind its technology?

From recent statements delivered within the past year from CEO Kim Thompson, it appears that Kraig is very

Today, QualityStocks published a 6 minute interview featuring Kraig Biocraft CEO Kim Thompson. In the interview, Mr. Thompson commented on the business, the spider silk technology it is developing, the enormous market for spider silk, how the company has progressed, the milestones the management has set for this year as well as provided a synopsis of the company’s scientific team members.

To hear the entire interview, visit: http://www.qualitystocks.net/videocharts.php?chartvid_id=177

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