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"Money - not to discredit your discovery on Abiassi/Taiwan but another board member found this info over 40 days ago. Just not posted to this board. IMO- It's about as relevent as a Linkedin connection between CEO Charlie Howland @ Warwick Mills and Bolt Threads CEO Dan Widmaier which occurred right after Bolt Threads announced their $40MM private funding several weeks ago. EOD forever."
You think finding info about a multimillion dollar KBLB factory in Taiwan is irrelevant to this board? And then you come out of hiding to tell me it's irrelevant? LOL forever
I was on desktop at the time so I grabbed my cam and took still pics. I knew that info wouldn't be there long.
Yeah I'm sure. I just saw what her degree was in and couldn't resist making a crack about Kim having a communication disorder.
Hoping someone will call and check. Confirmation would be nice.
Someone said that the info I posted today about the LinkedIn profiles has been there a long time. No it hasn't.
Like I said, I've done the same search for years now. Today is first day I've seen them. My search is specific and yields 1-2 pages of results. Today they show up -I report it. Now the page is locked and I can't view Steve's profile anymore. It showed because somehow the info was unlocked today.
Not only is the page locked but I predicted the info would either be deleted or inaccessible. I was right. Not only THAT, but the post I predicted that in has mysteriously disappeared.
Maybe a LinkedIn subscriber can get in now and see if it's still there but I'm betting they will have to friend Steve first.
This message will self destruct so i hope you get to see it.
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Can't blame Kim for dismissing Susie. In light of her degree, he must have hired her to help him with his communication disorder. Quite obviously she failed.
Had do idea you can get a degree in "Communication Sciences and Disorders"
Guessing someone is doing as much right now. I'll let one of the pundits do that. I've never called Ben before. Calls to Ben seem fruitless anyway.
Ten bucks says that if this info is supposed to be secret, that link to Steve's LinkedIn page will be down soon. Or that the Kraig info will be gone from it.
Take your screenshots while you can!!
Another thing bugs me about this. I've done a search for kraig biocraft on google almost daily for a few years now. Why all of a sudden did these LinkedIn pages just show up today?
Assisted in due diligence packages, and negotiation of funding terms. Major Public consulting assignments with the firm were: Sebring Software, Inc. (SMXI) – Bridge loan acquisition consulting and Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (KBLB) – Multimillion dollar factory acquisition in Taiwan.
I think he's saying he did the bridge loan for SMXI and the factory acquisition for KBLB.
Curious as to how this isn't in the financials if true.
Forgot to submit my links as evidence...
Stan Abiassi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanabiassi
Susanna Christenson
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/susanna-christenson/a5/573/403
2 things I found out today- and not from any newsletter. Don't know if this is old hat or not but:
A: Susie hasn't worked at KBLB since January.
B: A guy named Stan claims he used to work at Calm Seas AND that he helped KBLB with a "Multimillion dollar factory acquisition in Taiwan" in 2012
Stan also claims he used to (and still might) write PRs for KBLB. I say "still might" because his resume says "starting in January 2013"
Hopefully all true. Unfortunately though, Kim has more than a slight credibility problem. Don't take my word for it... Low share price is proof the world doesn't believe him and the low dollar volume traded daily is proof no one is even listening.
I'm still here though. I firmly believe there's no middle ground with KBLB. I'm either losing every penny or this will make me a millionaire. Still believe there's a glimmer of hope that there's a pot of gold at the end of this rainbow or I'd have abandoned ship by now.
The newsletter was a nice read but I'm going to be underwhelmed (as is the market in general) until I see a sales contract, followed by earnings.
When Howland said "years away" I took that to mean 4-5 but Kim led us to believe the "mundane" would be much sooner. (Which I personally took to mean 1-2 years tops)
But then Kim "estimated" and failed to deliver on the metric tons by "mid year 2014". Maybe he can deliver metric tons. If so, why the secret? Why estimate it at all if you're not going to announce it. Okay, fine. Maybe a delay. Delays happen...just tell us what's up....or not.
He chose "or not". We spent a year at the base of Sinai waiting for Kim to come down from the mount and when he did we yawned at his Dragon Silk and we yawn again today.
Unless I'm given reason to believe otherwise, if New Years Eve comes and goes with yet another failed timeline - with no explanation ...we are effed.
This is the first stock I've ever owned where I actually hoped the CEO was the world's worst communicator and has NO CLUE how to deal with people. Because if he isn't that, he's surely scamming us all and is the best salesman since PT Barnum.
"Our research team continues to push the limits of what’s possible and those results are diving...."
"Are diving". Freudian slip? He finally checked the share price?
"Revive" mulberry, raising silkworms
Updated at 08:58, Tuesday, 14.07.2015 (GMT + 7)
Over 10 years ago, vocational sericulture Lam Dong province in general and some districts of the south in particular are "plummeted". A few years ago, with many new ways silkworm rearing with strawberry varieties for yield, higher quality helped mulberry, farming is gradually being "revived".
Although sericulture area is not large, but many families in three southern districts are Huoai Da, Da Teh, and Cat Tien is "to make food" from this profession. Currently, along with the stability of prices at a high level, the more picky arable land is being restored strawberry and expand. At Da Teh districts, out of the total area of ??the district strawberry has about 500ha. In 2015, the People's Committee of Da Teh district planning nearly 140 ha of strawberry planting. Until now, this area has been implemented 100% higher than planned. Therefore, scheduled between now and the end of the year will continue to expand the area of ??more than 60ha mulberry again.
According to Hoang Hong Giang, Deputy Chairman of Da Teh District Farmers Association, sericulture area in the district increased gradually each year. With the current price of cocoon as the average amount of income on 1ha of mulberry reach 150-200 million / year. This year, with the source of funds to support farmers of central, provincial and district projects mulberry growing, silkworm breeding were being deployed in the district.
In 2015, the Foundation supports farmers centrally sponsored 600 million for the 25 households of cooperative group sericulture population groups 7 (Da Teh town) to renovate mulberry, raising silkworms building. This support has had a major impact on vocational rehabilitation and help sericulture farmers have conditions to develop family economy. To date, all 26 hectares of strawberry cooperative group has been converted to hybrid triploid mulberry plantation. Family Tran Ngoc Ban (population groups 7, Da Teh town, cooperative group members) said: "With the support, my family has converted more than 6 perch hybrid mulberry cane to yield, quality High quality silk and housing investment. With 6 pole strawberry current hybrids, each month, families raising silkworms from 1.5 to 2 boxes. Although current cocoon price to only 75,000 VND / kg (compared with 120,000 VND / kg the previous month) but still bring earnings from 5-7 million / month for the family ".
Apart from the Central Fund, the Fund supports farmers in Lam Dong province has also disbursed funds of 300 million for the 20 households sericulture in Ha Dong (Da Teh districts). With these funds, farmers have invested in raising silkworms and dodge to improve quality wood cocoon, raise incomes. And particularly for farmers Fund Da Teh districts, this year also support 100 million for 8 households in My Duc commune develop new strawberry acreage.
Silkworm breeding under the floor, dodge fed mulberry wood and hybrid is the new way to help reduce labor, increase the quality of cocoon that many farmers in the Southern District of Lam Dong has adopted. To the present, the district has about 290ha Da Huoai strawberry (up 200 ha compared to 2009). Through surveys in many households sericulture, per 1ha of strawberries used to feed silkworms, farmers made a profit of about 70-120 million / year. Mr. Doi Kim Khoi, Deputy Agriculture and Rural Development Da Huoai district, said: "In the future, the district will focus on the conversion of local strawberry varieties with high yielding mulberry varieties hybrid. At the same time, focus on developing a District Sericulture in southern communes of the district, such as Da Oai, already exists, and the town Madaguoi Madaguoi. The district will establish mulberry cooperative groups, in order to provide material "inputs", varieties, production organization and marketing of products through contract cocoon. In the future, the district development planning mulberry silkworm breeding hybrid combinations in the form of intensive, with an area of ??over 120 ha, in order to develop sericulture profession ".
Unlike Da Teh District and Da Huoai, compared with 2013, the area planted strawberries in Cat Tien district fell 35 ha, only 45 hectares. Tran Nam Dan, Head of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Cat Tien district, the cause is due to reduced acreage strawberry farmers planted fragmented, small scale should have difficulty in product consumption cocoon. However, implementation of the policy of the province, starting from 2016, Cat Tien district will focus on the development shrubbery along the Dong Nai River (from Phuoc Cat II in Quang Ngai). Orientation of the district is propaganda and mobilization strawberry growers planned to grow mulberry, raising silkworms towards sustainability.
http://www.baolamdong.vn/kinhte/201507/hoi-sinh-nghe-trong-dau-nuoi-tam-2428117/
"The pupa of a silk strand close to Dragon Silk with red glowing eyes, a genetic feature put in to identify the transgenic animals"
The above is the caption that was under the picture that was in the article I posted earlier (Coding genes for Dragon Silk). I couldn't post the picture, I'm using a mobile device.
Well, we've gone from ZERO news to great sounding news but it's evident that the world is deaf to KBLB.
News from Neverland isn't impressing anyone anymore. The market's saying "SHOW ME THE MONEY".
Until this horse wins a race, nobody will care but us chickens.
Spider silk on cusp of storming textiles market
Spider silk is definitely the new fibre to watch out for. It has been known for a while that spiders produce some of the most fascinating functional fibre: stronger than steel per unit wight, very lightweight, elastic (reportedly stretching up to 20 times its size), soft, water resistant –
However, news is suddenly erupting about companies on the brink of developing a means of commercialising this fibre or a close synthetic match, and beginning to explore its vast potential in textiles and apparel.
So far, spider silk has been unattainable on a large enough scale, due to the biology of the animals themselves. They produce the substance, but they are very difficult to rear and breed in a lab setting, as males usually die during the breeding process.
However, companies like AMSilk, Bolt Threads and Kraig Biocraft Laboratories have all recognised the enormous potential this fibre will have if it becomes commercially viable and are working tirelessly towards finding a method for its large-scale production.
The properties of spider and spider inspired silk could be put to good use in technical textiles, apparel, the fashion industry and potentially more. Spider silk producers believe that textiles produced with this fibre will offer better durability, lightness and flexibility than any synthetics currently on the market.
While Kraig is aiming to use genetically modified silkworms to produce spider silk as a natural fibre based on the same production process that has been proven effective for silk, Bolt Threads is working on a way to replicate the proteins that comprise spider silk and engineer a synthetic version which the company believes could be adapted to offer a number of different properties.
AMSilk is another company which has been developing a programme to manufacture a man-made fibre containing 100% spider silk, which it says would be of huge benefit to the technical textiles and medical textiles fields.
Other means of obtaining the protein which makes spider silk the incredible substance it is, include genetically modifying goats to produce it in their milk, which can then be extracted and spun into fibres. This was carried out in the US by Nexia Biotechnologies, and later by the Randy Lewis lab of the University of Wyoming and Utah State University. While they were successful in producing the substance without the use of spiders themselves, inability to produce in mass quantities has stunted the progression of the fibre onto the market. As well as transgenic goats, transgenic E. coli have also been developed to produce spider silk proteins.
This material is on the cusp of exploding into the textiles industry and it seems to have the potential to take the technical textiles market by storm. Recent news of Kraig Labs signing a memorandum of understanding with Vietnam, which outlines a framework for the creation and rearing of transgenic silkworms, means we are another step closer to mass-attaining this valuable substance.
http://www.wtin.com/article/2015/june/15615/spider-silk-on-cusp-of-storming-textiles-market/
Coding genes for Dragon Silk
News recently hit the presses highlighting Kraig Biocraft Laboratories’ memorandum of understanding with Vietnam, which represents the foundations of the two collaborating to use transgenic silk worms to finally mass-produce in a cost-effective way spider silk – a remarkable fibre with numerous performance qualities.
Like many other companies, Kraig Labs is reliant on genetic engineering for its products, but while other manufacturers have chosen different hosts for their work, such as bacteria and goats, this company is betting on the silk worm for an efficient process, calling it ‘nature’s silk factory’.
According to the company, genetic engineering offers a great deal of potential for the manufacturing this fibre, allowing for the manipulation of its characteristics in order to enhance certain functions for different end products and applications.
While cracking the mass production of spider silk itself would be a big feat for the industry, Kraig Labs is already setting itself up for the next big steps – refining and developing the product. According to COO Jon Rice, the demand for all different functionalities and possibilities is evident in the synthetics industry, so Kraig Labs is already working to add more products to its portfolio.
The developer of advanced spider silk based fibres, has created its strongest and most flexible recombinant spider silk technology yet, Dragon Silk.
Dragon Silk represents a leap in the company’s recombinant spider silk technology, combining both the elasticity and strength elements of native spider silk. A small number of samples of the new fibre have demonstrated tensile strength as high as 1.79 gigapascals, exceeding widely reported spider silk strength (by as much as 37%, depending on source literature), Kraig Labs said. Several samples of Dragon Silk have also demonstrated elasticity above 38%, exceeding native dragline spider silk, the company added.
This new material has shown it can be more flexible than Monster Silk and stronger than Big Red, the company’s flagship recombinant spider silk products. Kraig Labs is now working to standardise the performance level across the entire Dragon Silk genetic line.
Company founder and CEO Kim Thompson said: “We have never believed that native spider silk is the limit of strength and flexibility performance. A few superstar individuals, within the genetically engineered colony we call Dragon Silk, have demonstrated extremely high level of performance in the laboratory. We are now working to obtain that standard throughout the Dragon Silk line.
“Even as we undertake that work, our research team is working in parallel to create even more powerful transgenics. Dragon Silk represents yet another material science breakthrough and shifts the standard of performance expectation for spider silk technologies,” he added.
http://www.wtin.com/article/2015/june/29615/coding-genes-for-dragon-silk/?channelId=1120
Jon Rice interview. May have been posted. From German website.
https://fashionunited.de/nachrichten/mode/monsterseide-dank-gentechnik-ist-seide-bald-fester-als-stahl/2015063018389
Translation :
INTERVIEW It sounds like a science fiction story: The American biotech firm Kraig Biocraft Laboratories has implanted in silkworms to make silk spider genes even more tear-resistant. Monster Silk Americans call fittingly their new invention. The thread of the spider is five times stronger than steel - with the new silk so completely different fabrics could be produced, as we know so far. To date, limited the production of genetically modified silk in the lab, now is the spider silk in Vietnam go into production. For this purpose just a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed with the Vietnamese government, which sets the conditions for the breeding of genetically modified silkworms and the production of silk. Jon Rice, COO of Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, explains what the spider silk has precisely located.
What exactly is the difference between your silk and the traditional silk, which is obtained from silkworms?
We have managed to accurately identify the help of genetic engineering, the spider silk proteins of which make up the thread of the spider so enormous tensile strength. These genes we have implanted in our transgenic silkworms. Resulting from our silk has not reached a flexibility and strength, the conventional silk. Traditional silk is only half as flexible as our spider silk and only about a quarter to half as much. By integrating these spider silk proteins in our transgenic silkworms we have gained a reliable source of high-performance natural fibers that are biodegradable and biocompatible.
Win the silk thread of caterpillars or spiders? How exactly does it work?
Our silk we gain from silkworms. These transgenic caterpillars produce no "normal" silk thread, but a silk thread with the combined characteristics of a spider's thread. However, the process of extraction of the thread is again the same way as with conventional silkworms: the cocoon is unwound and spun the thread thereby obtained into yarns. In other words, we can use the existing know-how from silkworm breeding and silk production continues, and we will get a new, enormously strong silk fiber with the traditional, low-cost production methods.
There are also attempts to process the silk spider directly. Why do not you do that?
Most other techniques to generate spider silk are very expensive. In our method, the silkworms do all the work.
What actual benefit does the new Silk?
The first and most important difference between our silk and the traditional is actually the ultimate tensile strength. Our silk is more flexible and two to four times as hard as any other silk on the market. The textile industry can produce it especially comfortable and durable fabrics. Spider silk is five times stronger than steel and also stronger than Kevlar, which indeed now working and outdoor clothing is often used in the field. In addition, our Silk is extremely lightweight. But our silk allows far more areas of application than traditional textile production, such as composites and medical implants.
When will the first products from your spider silk?
We have already begun to produce on more experimental level products. The first products were knitted gloves for example, to find out how the material behaves during the knitting process. This work will be continued and we hope that we can imagine a meaningful series of woven fabrics soon.
I'd be curious to hear Ben's response to that. Although I assume Ben is equally as frustrated with the lack of substance.
We might not be so frustrated on being explicitly told that metric tons had been shipped if had Kim not led us to expect that it will be made public when it happens. After all, if it's a secret, why did he ever make the "mid-year 2014" comment.
Also, someone posted last year that Ben said Kim will let us know as soon as it happens. He never did.
Add 9 months of silence to that and you've got pissed off investors who now view Kim through different eyes. We see him as a guy who might not have the highest integrity.
I'm not holding out much hope that the quarterly newsletter will contain much meat, but I'll certainly welcome it. And I certainly hope Kim can restore confidence in the shareholders. Right now it's rock bottom.
Come on now Rayo. Communication is limited, not muted.
We can only hope. Maybe we can message the guy that got him hooked up with Warwick.
There was speculation that Rice would fix the communication deficiencies of the great and powerful Kim. But there's been no change since the Rice man cometh.
I lost patience when "mid-year" 2014 came and went with no announcement of metric tons being shipped-or received- or warehoused.
I've just been silent because there's been nothing to talk about. No news. He hired a guy. Apparently Rice is a "yes man"- if this guy were worth his salt, he'd tell Kim , "hello! McFly! The shareholders need a bone thrown their way. We wouldn't have to give away so many shares if the share price were higher..."
Every shareholder should be furious at the way Kim ignores us and refuses to account for himself. Not to mention the way he lets his currency (shares) dwindle lower and lower just because he refuses to open his mouth and give an account of what he's done with our money.
If Kim gave two ___ about the shareholders, he'd have been chomping at the bit to speak to us the friggin second the S1a was effective.
Like I said before, even if there's great news on the horizon, he allows his cash value to dwindle for no apparent reason.
Where would you find a KBLB chicken?
Good question. Certainly the party line has been that we will hear loads of news the second Kim is able to speak.
I can't. There's no excuse for the silence today. None. I don't give a rat's ____ how busy they are. The share price is money. PERIOD
It's completely disrespectful to his shareholders (and especially his loyal minions) who have defended his silence all these months.
Hope you're wrong. The silence from KBLB today makes me think I'd better get my Little Orphan Annie Secret Society decoder ring ready though.
If we get no more than "Our Oompa Loompas have succeeded in doubling an undisclosed amount of MS to yet another undisclosed amount which may or may not be the amount we'd sort of but not explicitly predicted by mid year 2015 (oops - I mean 2014)"...
If we get that ambiguity yet again, we'll head down to the twos.
I had expected that a PR was locked and loaded and ready to be released the second the gag was removed from Kim's mouth.
I guess not. I'm no CEO but if I were, and my share price was in the gutter and the entire world has been ignoring my company, I'd have had one ready for the "send" button for several months now. (Any minor "tweaking" that might be necessary would have been well thought out by now.)
Unless of course that making my loyal shareholders happy wasn't a priority. In that case I might wait to see what kind of spin the rumor mill might put on my continued silence to see if something sounds good.
Or he's in no hurry since there really aren't any shareholders that he cares to please. A pathetic >$25k traded per day on my company might not make me get off my ass to have a PR at the ready.
Even if he PRs a whopper today, the fact that he was unprepared to address his shareholders speaks volumes.
I'd have been happy with a quick email...
"S-1a approved- news very soon". Is that too much to ask?
For what it's worth, GMO crops were stalled in Vietnam for about a year while the "legal framework" was legally framed. Maybe "animals and creatures" will take about the same. Or not.
Oct 2013
http://news.agropages.com/News/NewsDetail---10748.htm
Aug 2014
http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/its-official-vietnam-licenses-genetically-modified-organisms-30220.html
I'd be curious how much forced reeling would add to production costs. Would probably be worth any cost if it produced native dragline silk and cured any variability issues.
The team’s report in the journal Biomacromolecules this week concludes that, in comparison to unparalysed silkworms, paralysis allows longer and more consistent silks to be collected by eliminating the ability of the silkworm to break and alter its silk fibre.
http://www.innovationtoronto.com/2013/09/paralysis-promises-smart-silk-technology/
Very interesting.
Kraig Biocraft Laboratories has achieved recent success with commercially producing genetically engineered spider silk using transgenic silkworms. Called “Monster Silk,” the super-strong, fine silk is produced from silkworms far larger than their original silk worm cousins. The first fabrics made with Monster Silk were knitted at Warwick Mills.
- See more at: http://textilesupdate.com/fiber-innovation-the-magic-of-spider-silk#sthash.Zj7EihFi.dpuf
9 JAN 2015
I missed this if someone already posted it.
Article from Vietnam. Same photo used in last article I posted but there is more info here. At least this blogger is talking about a missed opportunity for Vietnam. Article in Vietnamese. I posted the Google translate version.
http://khangnguyen100888.blogspot.com/2015/01/vi-sao-cam-nuoi-tam-lai-nhen.html
Spider silk durable than silk, can make bulletproof vests, car manufacturing ... so transgenic silkworms - spider silk Hybrid is expected to create surpassed this, but Vietnam Namchua allowed by a some reason ...
On 26/12, the Department of Agriculture - Rural Development (MARD), Lam Dong said: MARD both official comments on the proposal of Lam Dong province in Official Letter No. 53 / UBND-NN dated 11.17.2014 addressed to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Lam Dong suggest that allows cooperation with a foreign corporation conducting transgenic silkworm rearing - hybrid spider silk. According to Document No. 10 246 / BNN-Sun of MARD, the Lam Dong temporarily not project hybrid silkworms with spider reason we are not qualified to manage livestock breeds strange nature of GMO "hybrid spider silk "is.
Results of a new study
According to the written request of Lam Dong Province, sericulture hybrid spider is a completely new field of agricultural production in Vietnam, and of course for Lam Dong province - one of the key local craft sericulture. According to this document, recently, Kraig Biocraft Laboratores Group (KBL) raised the issue of cooperation with Lam Dong testing hybrid model sericulture and silk spider for Lam Dong has been agreed in the policy . However, with the written reply of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, this program can be stopped.
Official of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, said: "The management of genetically modified animals and genetically modified organisms are new areas of the world in general and Vietnam in particular. For transgenic animals, very few policies in the world to apply for the assay to assess the impact on the environment and biodiversity, largely because of the difficulty of risk management. Currently in Vietnam there is no legal framework and incompetent management of this new field. "Thus, in a written reply suggested Lam Dong province, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has asked Lam Dong temporarily not deploy the KBL Group in collaboration with project implementation transgenic silkworm rearing until Vietnam has legal framework in this field.
Notably, the written reply of Lam Dong Province, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development stated reason is because Vietnam has no legal framework on this new field should be temporary and not yet implemented denied silkworm breeding hybrid spider with its benefits.
According to the literature of Lam Dong DARD, not only for silkworm silk new "do" is that a number of other animals, including spiders, also silk. However, to date, most of the countries in the world only take animals almost solely to the production of silkworm silk, but no other animal can "compete" with silk. However, recent research by scientists around the world to see, as well as animal spider silk and silkworm silk as a material is very special: There are mechanical strength superior to silk, used in military technology (as bulletproof vests), in car manufacturing technology ...
However, according to research by scientists in the world, although there are some outstanding advantages compared with gossamer silk but has not been selected in our daily lives by these restrictions: The length of spider silk is usually too short (only about 20 - 30 cm compared with an average of silk yarn 1,000m); to get spider silk fibers, need a "technology" separate special silk and almost have to do it manually; and finally, bringing Spider silk is extremely difficult to obtain, totally unlike the silkworm breeding, rearing that is not a "herd" as silk, and silk spiders do best is eating spiders increasingly difficult to keep up.
The careful necessary?
Based on animal studies and releasing two meters, recently, a number of scientists from the University of Wyoming (USA) conducted a study and succeeded: Transplanting a series of spider genes into silkworms and the spider silk genes have been transplanted into a silk elastic and durable silk but almost equal in length to the length of silk.
In other words, the normal worm, scientists can make it genetically modified so that it can produce silk protein containing synthetic spider silk and silk as it has superior properties compared to conventional silk. With these results, the scientists set expectations in the future, the world is fully capable of producing an entirely new kind of silk worm with genetically modified to produce large quantities of fabrics super durable, even producing the armor ...
According to scientists, the silk from silkworms transgenic also be applied in the medical field (wound dressings, artificial tissues frame, artificial tendons, ligaments, surgery ...) and in many other areas. Based on the findings of scientists from the University of Wyoming (USA), KBL Group has chosen to Vietnam and Lam Dong to project future spider and silkworm rearing. The reason is because KBL selected local Lam Dong is considered the "capital" of the country mulberry, local farmers have a lot of experience sericulture, while this is going local first in the country to develop high-tech agriculture.
However, speaking as a leader of Lam Dong DARD prior written proposal temporarily not project between Lam Dong with KBL Group silkworm breeding hybrid spider that: "There is most likely that this is a breakthrough new in agriculture, especially in the fields of sericulture, but the law is the law; Vietnam because no legal framework in this new field should force us to comply, that is temporarily not able to implement the project. "
Prior to this decision of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, opinion also raises questions: Is such that we have missed an opportunity in agricultural development, namely development of sericulture? However, it has been suggested that prudence of such MARD is required by the genetic modification are still two sets of conflicting opinions!
Khac Dung / (Report Lam Dong)
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"Mr. Lai Hung, the Director of the Plant Protection Department, Lam Dong, said the reason KBL Group Lam Dong selected partner spider and silkworm rearing trials because this is the "capital" sericulture industry VN."
It's not entirely clear if Hung from Dong is going to be a problem
too. Could just be stating the obvious. Guessing that Dung and Hung from Dong are in cahoots.
I'm not confident that Dung from Dong knows what he's talking about. If he's got "24 years experience" with spider/silkworm hybrids. That's only possible if he's referring to the previous attempt from Japan where that was certainly true.
It's Dung, not Dong. Sometimes his friends call him "the big Dung" but he gets pissed when they call him "Dong".
At least that's what sources inside Vietnam say.
On 12/30, leaders of Lam Dong DARD said MARD not agree to Lam Dong project transgenic silkworm breeding - hybrid spider silk.
Traditional silk weaving
Silk weaving tradition - Photo: Forest Park
Previously, May 11.2014, Lam Dong province has written 53 posts MARD, the proposal allows the province to cooperate with Kraig Biocraft Laboratores Group (KBL) US testing transgenic silkworm rearing - hybrid spider silk. Mr. Lai Hung, the Director of the Plant Protection Department, Lam Dong, said the reason KBL Group Lam Dong selected partner spider and silkworm rearing trials because this is the "capital" sericulture industry VN. Currently strawberry acreage of Lam Dong on 3,800 ha, the output of 54,000 tons.
However, Document No. 10246 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said: "For transgenic animals, very few policies in the world to apply for the assay to assess the impact on the environment and biodiversity, largely due to difficult risk management. Show in VN no legal framework and incompetent management of this new field. "Therefore, the Ministry of Forestry Council requested is temporarily not deploy the KBL Group in collaboration with project implementation transgenic silkworm breeding until the legal framework.
In this regard, Mr. Nguyen Tien Dung, director of Silk Textile Co., Ltd. Vietnam Siek (former deputy director of Visintex, of corporations sericulture VN), who has 24 years with mulberry branches silk and silkworm hybrid study of spiders, said hybrid silkworm silk of spiders quality is not high, only to cotton, hard to bring economic efficiency.
http://www.thanhnien.com.vn/kinh-te/dung-trien-khai-du-an-tam-lai-nhen-521830.html
Sounds like Mr Dung is trying hard to keep KBLB out of Vietnam.
Keyword being "temporary" in the article below. I'm not worried about the delay at all. I'm just happy to hear the lights are still on at KBLB. I'd rather hear about a delay than that the whole program is a flop. To me, this news is a breath of fresh air. The ministry of agriculture in Vietnam must think Kraig is onto something if they temporarily halted the program. I think Rayo is right- going to have to grease the right palm. Not being a cynic, it's a fact in every country. Vietnam isn't so stupid as to let this slip into the hands of the other silk producing nations first. They already know that China (the looters of the world) will copy or steal the technology from someone soon enough anyway. That's how they do everything. Now I'm just worried how much this will cost us.
http://www.vietlinh.vn/library/news/2014/agriculture_livestock_news_show_2014.asp?ID=1236
However, speaking as a leader of Lam Dong DARD prior written proposal temporarily not project between Lam Dong with KBL Group silkworm breeding hybrid spider that: "There is most likely that this is a breakthrough New in agriculture, especially in the fields of sericulture, but the law is the law; Vietnam because no legal framework in this new field should force us to comply, that is temporarily not able to implement the project. "
Prior to this decision of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, opinion also raises questions: Is such that we have missed an opportunity in agricultural development, namely development of sericulture? However, it has been suggested that prudence of such MARD is required by the genetic modification are still two sets of conflicting opinions!
Maybe it's time to send someone to knock on the door just to see if Kim is still at it. Wouldn't hurt to check.
It's entirely possible that the mutant worms have attacked him and he's bound up and unable to communicate.
It could happen. I've seen it on Creature Feature. (Happened to Frodo too.)
How many days before the effective date was there a PR in 2011?
I wasn't expecting news tomorrow because the S-1 wasn't effective yet. So apparently we could hear news tomorrow after all?