Replies to post #158590 on Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

[SilkRoad]

April 13, 2018: China’s pioneers to the moon will be flowers and silkworms

https://qz.com/1251821/chinas-pioneers-to-the-far-side-of-the-moon-on-the-change-4-will-be-flowers-and-silkworms/amp/

[SilkRoad]

ISS Expedition Duration October 2009 to March 2010

Integrated Assessment of Long-term Cosmic Radiation Through Biological Responses of the Silkworm, Bombyx mori, in Space

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=6

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Interesting that China, European Space Agency, Japan, and NASA have all been looking at silkworms in space for years. Our transgenics need to go to space. But, then there was this old study which says individual silkworms need to be studied......

Silkworm eggs are kept on the International Space Station for three months, then placed in either normal or microgravity for six days to resume embryonic development. The results show that microgravity does have an effect on egg development. Eggs are also exposed to radiation. No mutations are seen in the first generation of worms, but are present in the second and third generations, indicating that cosmic rays apparently damage the genes in the first generation and this gets passed down to later generations. Gene silencing, or deactivating, data indicate that individual eggs experienced variations in dose and type of cosmic ray, which means that researchers need to examine radiation’s effects at an individual level not the group as a whole.

Here: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=946

Radiation will be an issue. I assume it will be an issue for microbes too? IMHO

[SilkRoad]

”set up a colony of silkworms”

A new moon race is on. Is China already ahead? June 13, 2019:

https://www.politico.com/agenda/amp/story/2019/06/13/china-nasa-moon-race-000897

[silkmaster]

Send NASA KT E-mail or do they already have it (-:

[imelcooler]

"NASA looks to engineer microbes to make spider silk for astronauts on Mars"

A very nice and informative series of posts.

I personally believe KT is waiting to Piggyback a progress
announcement on the opening of the Spider man movie.

How many Spider man movies have have come and gone since the
ND announcement in 2010 ?