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Kraig exceeds its own expectations with new spider silk cocoons

09/04/2018

Spider silk-based fibre developer Kraig Biocraft has announced it has successfully produced the first recombinant spider silk cocoons from a new line of hybrid transgenic silkworms it created at its production and research facility in Michigan, US at the start of 2018.  The company has explained that this new hybrid line was created by combining...

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