Loopworm is ramping up production at a facility in Bangalore capable of churning out 6,000t of silkworm and black soldier fly ...

FUKUOKA--Kyushu University has used silkworms to develop a protein that could become a candidate vaccine for COVID-19, officials said. The university, known as a world-class institution for ...

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According to Hammer, “the simplest description of an A-frame is a building where the major structure contains two angled ...

Researchers at PNNL discovered a novel way to control the nanostructure of the silk protein, which is a key step toward ...

In the cities of Trento and Rovereto in northern Italy and Bangkok in Thailand, scientists are busy rearing silkworms in ...

His efforts from 1865 to 1870 led to the discovery that the disease affecting the silkworms was really two separate parasitic infections — known as pébrine and flacherie. The agents causing ...

It is excruciatingly time-consuming and laborious to actually cultivate the material. Unlike silkworms that are just happy to share space with others in their family, spiders will often resort to ...

Phan Thi Thuan's family have been making silk for generations, growing and harvesting the threads from silkworms themselves to create luxury garments. But making lotus silk is different.

Here's how craftspeople across the southern part of Asia extract and process the delicate fibers from silkworms, lotus flowers, and muga cocoons. We begin with these wiggly little silkworms in Nam ...

While many citizens have been figuratively cocooning during the COVID-19 pandemic, Empress Masako has literally been engaged in the practice, helping to raise silkworms at the Imperial Palace in ...