Replies to post #30779 on Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

[es1]

I would add to that, that taking Kaplans word for it is like asking ford which car is better ford or chevy. They would say ford every time. Does anyone really expect someone who is attempting to make something to admit there way is inferior?

I dont think he would get much backing if he came out and said the future is in silkworms but I am doing vats of bacteria anyway.

EDIT Also....DAMN where is the volume???

[ZincFinger]

The quote as given by Manshoon:
"David Kaplan, chair of biomedical engineering at Tufts University, who has developed biomedical applications for silkworm silk, notes that Kraig Biocraft has not yet published its results in a scientific journal. Kaplan adds that a transgenic silkworm is a promising system for making spider fibers, but notes that over the long-term, large-scale industrial production may not be as viable as growing silk-producing bacteria in vats. The fiber-making process remains a challenge for approaches using bacteria, but researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are working on microfluidics and other systems designed to mimic the silkworm's fiber-spinning capabilities."
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"Long term" is not going to mean merely a year or two. In industry it generally means a minimum of 5 years or more, more likely 10 to 15. Hardly a present concern. But that time KBLB should be very well established in the industry and, as successful industry leader do, will have been spending some of its profits on research and development including alternative methods of production. This kind of potential future problem exists for absolutely every high tech company and is inherent in the business. It says nothing relevant, IMHO, to the consideration of KBLB's prospects in the near and intermediate term. In the long term competition is inevitable. But given where things are now, when that long term becomes the present, KBLB shoud be sitting in a very dominant position in the industry with huge cash assets, a great deal of experience in the area and many years of further research and IP under it's belt.

[manshoon1]

That will ultimately be the biggest unknown. I do think eventually microfluidics will be figured out and it will become reality, but the issue of cost..... I don't know the cost per gram comparison. It takes a lot of mass for the silkworm to create the silk it does, if bact. vats are more efficient then at minimum I see protein production beating out the silkworm.

But let's not overanalyze what dr kap said(zinco), it could be perfected this year, next year, or much later, the key for Kraig labs is to be competitive if that happens.

It is easy to have a conversation with one that does not declare omniscience.