Unfortunately, you land in literal hot water. Your worm brain can’t really process this, but you’ve just crashed into the ...

In a materials science discovery, scientists made a liquid silk solution that hardens and picks up objects—not unlike ...

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories has developed transgenic silkworms to produce spider silk in commercial quantities.

Bangkok-based university startup EngineLife has found an innovative way to deliver drugs to patients, using silk fibroin from ...

For centuries, Thailand has produced premium silk fabrics. Now, researchers in Bangkok have found another use for the fiber: ...

The development of transgenic silkworms resistant to Bombyx mori nuclear polyhedrosis ... Experts believe the risk of allergenicity from transgenic silk is negligible. Indian sericulture faces ...

demonstrating that sericulture (silk farming) involved the cultivation of mulberry trees to feed silkworms, corroborating historical accounts. The complete analysis revealed that fabrics found in ...

Of the many things I learned about silk, some highlights include: Bombyx mori, the silkworm, was likely domesticated in China after arriving from Merv, the great city of present-day Turkmenistan ...

The successful production surge was driven by Kraig Labs' newest hybrid spider silk production strain, which transformed traditional silkworms into producers of spider silk-based fibers. This record ...

RAJSHAHI, Dec 4, 2024 (BSS) - Traditional silk sector to be revived after the best uses of existing natural resources with ...

A projected video shows magnified microscope views of the insects and their silk fibers, accompanied by a somewhat haunting tonal sound: an amplified, enhanced version of the noises silkworms make ...