Kraig has new commercial markets on its radar
31/05/2019
This development is the result of the new design, gene editing and incorporation approaches that the company has employed. It designed these approaches to customise the mechanical properties of its products for specific commercial markets. They have also allowed it to more quickly, accurately and efficiently generate new transgenics.
The latest of these has been engineered for high strength and significantly higher protein expression levels.
Announcing this development, Jon Rice, Kraig’s chief operating officer, said: “This breakthrough has powerful ramifications that affect the core of how we develop future spider silk materials. These newly confirmed transgenics mark a revolutionary advancement in capability of our spider silk materials. The new tools and our research team will allow us to target commercial markets that were not originally on our radar.”
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