Replies to post #253634 on Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

[gimmegimmeminemine]

50% larger than normal commercial silkworms if I remember correctly).

Nowhere in the history of this company have they claimed they can produce a silk cocoon that is 50% bigger than any commercial cocoon in existence.

If that were true then they could stop with all the troubles they have been having with spider silk production and just produce eggs for conventional silk production and make bank.

They cannot produce a cocoon that is 50% bigger than anything on the market today.

The 50% bigger is using their original cocoon sizes. Which were non domesticated silkworms. Which are much smaller than commercial grade silkworms.

[trainer2]

GTman1, quote, "Hybridization has it's benefits because you can get the best traits out of a line the passes to all the offspring, and in this case, you get offspring that are infertile. This means that prodigy hands over the eggs to the third-party contractor, but the contractor can't breed them because they are all infertile.

Thanks for this explanation on how KBLB can have a secure environment for their silkworms.

[bananarama]

"All in all this is good news and it looks like they are getting this production started early in 2023."

Thank you, GT for your always appreciated input in this great post. This PR really surprised me! GREAT NEWS! GO KBLB!

[m/wilson]

Corporate theft had always been a big concern for me.

[jealmc79]

“you get offspring that are infertile”

That is not true. The offspring can still reproduce. The results of that breeding won’t all have the same desired characteristics of the parents though.

[DimesForShares]

The hybrids are not necessarily infertile. Obviously the hybrids are heterozygous with respect to some traits. Breeding two hybrids would result in a second generation where only 1/2 of the offspring were heterozygous with respect to each genetic difference. Assuming there were several different genes, the chance a Gen 2 offspring has the same genetic makeup of the parents is quite small.

Horses and donkeys are obviously different species with different numbers of chromosomes. Presumably each hybrid parent is a Bombyx Mori. That doesn’t preclude infertility in offspring, but it is less likely than infertility in a cross-species hybrid. The PR also did not report infertility but rather stated the performance advantages only are present in first-generation hybrids.