Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Announces Selective Breeding Advancement, Significantly Increasing Both Spider Silk Production Throughput and Hybrid Vigor

Over the past two years, Kraig Labs has used selective breeding to create more advanced parental strains with the goal of increasing hybrid vigor to further increase shell weight. One of these new ...
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World’s first gene-edited spider produces red fluorescent silk

For years, the CRISPR-Cas9 genome technology has been reshaping genetic engineering, a precision tool to transform everything from agriculture to medicine. With its incredible efficiency, this ...
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The 7 Types of Spider Webs and the Incredible Spiders That Make Them

Spider webs are made from a protein fiber which we call silk. It is both strong and stretchy but not all spider silk is the same, there are several different types. Spiders produce silk using special ...
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Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Announces New Spider Silk Parental Strain for Expanded Commercial Production

ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (OTCQB: KBLB) ("Company" or "Kraig Labs"), a world leader in spider silk technology*, announces today the ...
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No, This Isn’t a Spider-Man Reboot—Scientists Just Made the World’s First Genetically Modified “Spider” That Spins Red Glowing Silk

In a quiet lab in Bayreuth, Germany, a team of researchers has achieved what has long eluded geneticists: modifying the genome of a spider to create a living organism capable of producing fluorescent ...