Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Announces Selective Breeding Advancement, Significantly Increasing Both Spider Silk Production Throughput and Hybrid Vigor

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (OTCQB: KBLB) ("Company", “Kraig” or "Kraig Labs"), a world leader in spider silk technology*, is proud to announce the Company has succeeded in significantly ...
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52 ideas that changed the world - 39. Selective breeding

Selective breeding is the method of breeding plants or animals with particular genetic characteristics to create offspring with a set of desired traits. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good ...
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Cattle gene found for selective breeding in disease control

Scientists have validated a genetic variant that supports selective breeding to improve the survival rates of cattle infected by East Coast Fever (ECF). In a study published in PLOS Genetics, ...

How Generations of Selective Breeding Created Miserable Chickens

Aviagen and Cobb raise a small number of purebred chickens, then cross and recross their bloodlines for three generations.