Kraig Biocraft Labs (KBLB)

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. was founded by the inventor of the company’s technology, current chief executive officer, Kim Thompson, who is an attorney through training, but who has always held a strong interest in biotechnology and genetic engineering.  Mr. Thompson devised the idea for using silkworms for the production of unique proteins that could be [...]

Nexia Biotechnologies, Inc., which is a Canadian biotechnology company, is probably the company that has invested the most resources toward developing methodologies to produce spider silk proteins via genetic engineering.
Nexia’s research efforts concentrated on achieving expression of spider silk proteins in the milk of dairy goats.  To achieve this goal, researchers at Nexia introduced spider [...]

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories is focused on the development of significant high performance technical fibers and polymers utilizing transgenic silkworms as a unique protein expression system – simply put, the company is heavily involved in research related to utilizing spider genes for insertion into silkworms to create a transgenic variety of silkworms capable of spinning a [...]

The market in which the company will participate is generally referred to as the “technical textiles” market.  The market encompasses a broad range of products that are used for a huge number of different types of applications.  The common characteristic of companies that participate in the technical textiles market is that the fibers, often which [...]

The company has yet to produce its first transgenic silkworm capable of production of spider silk protein expression.  Work toward this goal continues under the direction of Dr. Fraser at the University of Notre Dame.
The company is in possession of the coded gene sequences relating to spider silk production and is currently working on microinjection [...]

We are clearly excited about this company’s prospects to develop a “super fiber” that can be sold into the technical textiles industry.  The company’s research and development efforts seem to be based on solid science that has been developed by some of the world’s leading genetic researchers.  The company’s technical team now needs to move [...]