Researchers have developed a novel, significantly more efficient fabrication method for silk that allows them to heat and mold the material into solid forms for a wide range of applications, including ...

Kraig Biocraft’s latest processing update signals a key step toward turning breakthrough production into real, sellable ...

Record output and successful fiber processing highlight advancing scalability in spider silk commercialization efforts. Kraig ...

Earlier this month, Kraig Labs announced that it had successfully produced nearly 1.8 metric tons of recombinant spider silk ...

Silk is a naturally occurring fiber that silkworms use to make their protective cocoons. Most silk is produced for the luxury textiles market, although it has medical applications as well. This ...

The silk fibroin protein that silkworms spin into cocoons is prized for its mechanical properties. But the complex network of hydrogen-bonded β-sheets that give silk its strength and flexibility also ...

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (OTCQB: KBLB) ("the Company", "Kraig Labs", or "Kraig's"), a world leader in spider silk technology*, today announced that it has begun processing nearly 1.8 metric ...

During the 1920s, the small city of Hermosa Beach became the unlikely center of the West Coast silk industry with the arrival of the Golden State Silk Mills plant. Up until then, the silk industry had ...

Using methods common to plastics manufacturing, properties of silk-based devices can be tuned for strength, flexibility, molecular function and biodegradability MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (December 16, ...