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Kraig steps up silk efforts with tree delivery

19/08/2016

Spider silk developer Kraig Biocraft Laboratories has taken delivery of 2,000 mulberry trees as part of its efforts to expand its US production. It is set to begin production at a new facility in Indiana, US in the coming weeks. Mulberry leaves are an important part of the diet of its transgenic silkworms, which spin recombinant spider silk. In...

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