Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc. is a biotech company working to develop and commercialize high performance polymers. The company intends to break into the $92 billion market for high performance fibers by using spider silk genes.

The company intends to insert these genes into silkworms to make them produce fibers with the characteristics of spider silk, which is one of the strongest natural fibers known. In an effort to reach these goals, Kraig Biocraft has licensed the spider gene sequences patented by the University of Wyoming and the genetic developed technology by the University of Notre Dame.

Several weeks ago, Kraig Biocraft announced that during the months of May, June and July the scientific team succeeded in its previously announced attempt to ramp up the number of genetic insertions performed. The team’s initial goal was to double the number of DNA construct insertions performed in

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc. is a biotech company working to develop and commercialize high performance polymers. The company intends to break into the $92 billion market for high performance fibers by using spider silk genes.

The company intends to insert these genes into silkworms to make them produce fibers with the characteristics of spider silk, which is one of the strongest natural fibers known. In an effort to reach these goals, Kraig Biocraft has licensed the spider gene sequences patented by the University of Wyoming and the genetic developed technology by the University of Notre Dame.

Several weeks ago, Kraig Biocraft announced that during the months of May, June and July the scientific team succeeded in its previously announced attempt to ramp up the number of genetic insertions performed. The team’s initial goal was to double the number of DNA construct insertions performed in

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc., the biotech company known for its pioneering work in genetic engineering for the production of spider silk and other polymers, is constantly breaking new ground in the field of genetics. As such, it is not surprising that they have assembled a remarkable team of scientific advisors to play a major role in everything they do.

• Malcolm J. Fraser, Jr., Ph.D, specializes in molecular genetics, and currently heads the Fraser Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame. During his post-doctoral work at Texas A&M, Dr. Fraser was part of the team which developed the genetic expression system for producing organic molecules, including pharmaceuticals, on an industrial scale. He is the co-inventor of the “piggyBac” gene splicing technology, and the named inventor for various patents involving its improvement.

He was recently selected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement

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