Replies to post #260513 on Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

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“Their facilities would be highly sensitive to contaminations.”

So are silkworm operations. Doesn’t take much to get a silkworm sick.

Apples and oranges.

Silkworms, like almost all livestock, have innate and adaptive immune systems. Processes have been in place to keep most of the silkworms alive long enough to cocoon. Sericulturists are almost guaranteed to have some rate of death/survivability. This is standard in the normal process of raising silkworms.

There is also a well established way of expanding bacteria and yeast in bioreactors the way Bolt Threads, Spiber, and Amsilk do. Unfortunately for them, this well established process necessitates extremely clean lab conditions and extensive disinfecting of these reactors between batches. Not to mention highly trained lab techs.