Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

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MS is real and probably has market value but I still wonder about Zinc Fingers.
As far as I know there has been no substantive word about progress with ZF since the April insertions.
Kim mentioned the need for new protocols in the August letter but he did not say when that need was discovered. Was he referring to the new configurations from December, 2011 or something learned in the April 2012 mass insertions? Can anyone here elaborate on this?
My impression is that the new configurations from Sigma-Aldrich in December was what Kim was talking about and that the mass insertions in April used them. It seems to me that they would not have gone to mass insertions unless the new ZF configurations had tested out well.
After that, dead silence.
If the mass insertions had failed we might not have heard about that directly but it would have led to another set of new protocols from SA and/or another round of insertions (previously worth an announcement and probably not covered by NDAs for MS).
I think that the above leaves open an important possibility.
The ZF technology worked and that gen2 exists at this time. If so, then silence is perfectly in order. Access to large quantities of the type of fiber Gen2 is supposed to produce would represent a sea change in silk applications and might have strategic implications that the military is not so eager to publicise.
Call me a cockeyed optimist and a fool in love but in this case, silence might be very good news.