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Kraig Creates Four New Lines Of 'Spider Silk' Silkworms

ANN ARBOR – Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc. (OTC: KBLB) has announced the creation of four new lines of transgenic silkworms. The company uses gene splicing technology to create silkworms whose …

Advanced Materials / University Research

Michigan Tech Research Advances The Science of Catalysts

HOUGHTON — The world is run by catalysts. They clean up after cars, help make fertilizers, and could be the key to better hydrogen fuel. Now, a team of chemists, …

3D Printing / Advanced Materials / ESD Tech Tour / Water Resources

Tech Tour Day Four, Part Two: CMU Tops In Makers, Lakes

MT. PLEASANT — It’s tough to visit two schools in one day on the Tech Tour. Next time, Central Michigan University, you get more time. Because what I saw Monday …

Advanced Materials / ESD Tech Tour / Higher Education / STEM / Water Resources

Tech Tour Day Four, Part One: Saginaw Valley Solid In STEM

UNIVERSITY CENTER — Saginaw Valley State University has eight million reasons to be digging deep into science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. So it was a natural to kick off …

Advanced Materials / Auto Suppliers / Green Technology

Gage Products Opens New Labs In Ferndale

FERNDALE — Gage Products, a developer of automotive paint systems, solvents and fuels, has opened a new multi-million-dollar Gage Innovation Center at the company’s 12-acre headquarters campus inFerndale. Community leaders …

Advanced Materials / Higher Education

MSU To Expand Diamond Growing Lab

EAST LANSING — A laboratory housed at Michigan State University’s College of Engineering that literally grows diamonds, gems that are not used for jewelry but rather for industrial purposes, is …

Advanced Materials / Biotech

Lansing Firm Files For Patents On Spider Silk Tech For Fabrics

LANSING — Lansing-based Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc. (OTC: KBLB) announced that the company and the University of Notre Dame have filed for two additional United States patents on its transgenic …

Advanced Materials / Higher Education

MSU To Host Composites Tech Conference

EAST LANSING — Modern composites help create everything from skateboards to satellites. This multibillion-dollar industry develops the products that make automobiles and boats stronger and lighter, and sports equipment perform …

Advanced Materials / Higher Education

MTU Prof Combines Graphene, Nanotubes For Microscopic Switches

HOUGHTON — Graphene has been called a wonder material, capable of performing great and unusual material acrobatics. Boron nitride nanotubes are no slackers in the materials realm either, and can …

Advanced Materials / Higher Education

MTU Researchers Designing Speakers Of Carbon Nanotubes

HOUGHTON — Troy Bouman reaches over, presses play, and the loudspeaker sitting on the desk starts playing the Michigan Technological University fight song. But this is no ordinary loudspeaker. This …

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