Unfortunately, you land in literal hot water. Your worm brain can’t really process this, but you’ve just crashed into the teacup of legendary Chinese empress Leizu. As you die in the hot tea, your ...

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

In the mid 1800s, a pervasive disease decimated silkworm agriculture in France. In an effort to save the silk-production industry, the French government persuaded Louis Pasteur, well-respected for ...

These are the remnants of silkworm larvae, stricken by the white blight and left to wither. Unfulfilled in their transformation, they bear their natural pallor. Ingredients are items that are ...

Hunan province, a traditional hub for China's sericulture industry with a long history of mulberry cultivation and silkworm farming, is witnessing a revival through intelligent transformation. At an ...

Jeanette Sliwinski, the woman responsible for the deaths of Chicago's Michael Dahlquist (Silkworm), Douglas Meis (the Dials), and John Glick (the Returnables), will leave prison starting October 2, ...

Hyderabad: The AP State Sericulture Research and Development Institute (APSSRDI) has resumed field trials on transgenic virus-resistant silkworms deve.

ADILABAD: Once a forgotten craft, Tasar silk cultivation is now experiencing a remarkable revival in Mancherial district.

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 ...

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