Meet the Transgenic Silkworms That Are Spinning out Spider Silk

Michigan-based polymer development company KBL using silkworms to produce spidersilk

In Jon Rice’s office is a small incubator full of tiny insect eggs—one of many such incubators kept at Kraig…

Full text: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/50399/title/Meet-the-Transgenic-Silkworms-That-Are-Spinning-out-Spider-Silk/

Author

Catherine Offord

Source

The Scientist, 2017-10-01.

Supplier

Karolinska Institutet
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc.
US Army
Utah State University

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