From these eggs will hatch tiny silkworms, caterpillars of the domesticated silk moth Bombyx mori, which will then set to chomping down on mulberry leaves and preparing themselves for the demanding ...

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

Testing positive for Covid (twice) and being put in quarantine for 28 days doesn't exactly scream "creative haven." But for designer Grace Wang, it was the nudge she needed to recognize that her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (OTCQB: KBLB) ("Company" or "Kraig Labs"), a global leader in engineered spider silk ...