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Kraig accelerates development of new spider silk fibres

24/09/2018
Developer of spider silk based-fibres Kraig Biocraft Laboratories has announced that it has implemented two “major advancements” that it believes will “drastically accelerate” the pace of development of its next generation recombinant spider silk fibres and technologies.

It explained that the advancements are the result of new equipment and recently employed protocols at its research and development headquarters in Michigan. 

“These new approaches build on the existing protocols, but allow the company to increase processing efficiency significantly,” Kraig said. “The company expects to see higher throughput as this approach should result in shorter times to generate new transgenics.”

It added that processes that previously required an entire day to complete can now be done “in a matter of minutes”.  

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