When silkworms were infected with the virus, the endogenous fibroin gene was knocked out and replaced with the genetically engineered gene through a process of homologous recombination.

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 ...

Unlike traditional silks, Eri Silk is made from the broken cocoons of silkworms, a process that aligns with the principle of ...

The process could be used to treat conditions ... The approaches using both silkworms and some of the marine organisms have ...

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 ...

A sericulture revolution in East Africa, powered by Japan’s silkworm and silk expertise Selecting/breeding mulberry and silkworm species suited to Kenya, developing silk materials Kenya’s biological ...

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 ...

The certification process, facilitated by the expert guidance ... he said. Loopworm’s silkworm pupae are leaf-fed, reared in ambient, climate-friendly conditions, making them a sustainable ...