The arduous task of silkworm cultivation involved keeping the tiny silkworm eggs (about 35,000 of them weigh only an ounce) at the correct temperature. Hatched worms then had to be fed mulberry ...

Silkworm silk is a protein-based fiber with ... just as well while retaining the advantage of biodegradability." More information: Martin Zaki et al, Recreating Silk's Fibrillar Nanostructure ...

Silkworms can produce target proteins in their ... The Kyushu University researchers studied the genetic information of the novel coronavirus, which was published in January, and set their sights ...

They make silk by hand in a tedious, 30-step process. Craftspeople feed the silkworms every four hours so they spin brilliantly yellow cocoons. And turning those cocoons into silk is even more ...