When some people measure the value of a company, the primary aspect they concern themselves with, is dollars and cents – i.e. the bottom line. This method of evaluation would be fine if life was strictly a numbers-game, but it is not. This narrow view eludes the true spirit of industry, which is the betterment of all mankind.

Few companies can claim to have changed the world through innovation, but if Kraig Labs continues its current rate of progression, it is a claim that will not be unfounded for them. Scientists have tried for decades to exploit the unequaled uniqueness of spider silk, but to no avail. Only Kraig Labs has utilized DNA transfers to effect the production of spider silk by silkworms through a sort of ‘genetic surrogacy’, which allows the circumvention of the fact that spiders cannot be raised in colonies due

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories has their focus on developing high performance polymers and technical fibers. The company is utilizing their proprietary genetic engineering technology to develop and produce polymers and protein-based materials, including spider silk, which may have numerous commercial and consumer applications.

The company possesses coded gene sequences that relate to spider silk production and is currently working on injecting this material into silkworm eggs. The team at the University of Notre Dame, led by Dr. Fraser, has recently been strengthened to further refine the microinjection process as well as increase the number of microinjections preformed.

In most recent news, the company excitedly announced that the scientific team has achieved the activation of fluorescent marker gene sequences that were incorporated into spider silk DNA packets by the researchers. The team has successfully inserted the DNA packets into silkworms, which are now visibly emitting florescence. This achievement is

Kraig Biocraft excitedly announced today that the scientific team has achieved the activation of fluorescent marker gene sequences that were incorporated into spider silk DNA packets by the researchers. The team has successfully inserted the DNA packets into silkworms, which are now visibly emitting florescence.

CEO Kim K. Thompson commented, “The fact that we are now seeing fluorescence in the modified silkworms establishes that the DNA insertion packets are working and that we have succeeded in obtaining chromosomal insertion and expression. In other words, not only are the DNA packets incorporating themselves into the silkworm chromosome as expected, the silkworms are actually producing the fluorescent proteins as they are instructed to do by the genetic coding in the spider silk insertion packets.”

The DNA packets contain the genetic instructions for the production of new spider silk based fibers and textiles. The florescent marker sequences, which are