World's First Commercially Viable Silkworms for Recombinant Spider Silk Production Larger BAM-1 Cocoons pictured on right ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

But why is it so expensive? Silk is the product of the domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori. The caterpillars eat constantly. They're fed mulberry leaves five times a day. After 45 days of munching ...

Marco Lo Presti, who is the lead study author and an assistant professor at Tufts University was trying to create powerful ...

as the silk industries in France and Italy had been hit by an epidemic of silkworm disease. At one point, Japan was the world's biggest exporter. On this episode of Journeys in Japan, Sheila ...

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 ...