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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)
Posted by Khang Nguyen at 04:43
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