Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

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Nice find. Once again, silkworms, not protein fermentation, is highlighted for the production of spider silk fibers. Another U.S. government entity corroborating interests

U.S. Government Accountability Office article on Synthetic Biology (and Spider Silk from Silkworms)

First Paragraph of the report:

Synthetic biology can change the genetic material in viruses, bacteria, yeasts, plants, or animals to give them useful new characteristics. For example, integrating spider DNA makes a silkworm produce super strong, ultra-lightweight silk.


Also:

Once equipped with information about the DNA's function, synthetic biologists can edit or create the desired genetic material within an organism using genome-editing tools such as CRISPR. Scientists can make these genetic changes far more rapidly using synthetic biology than with earlier methods, such as selective breeding over multiple generations. Moreover, synthetic biologists are able to retool organisms to have uses they do not currently exhibit in nature. For example, scientists are engineering silkworms to produce spider silk rather than traditional silk (see fig. 1).