In a remarkable fusion of nature and science, China has ushered in a new era of textile technology with genetically modified ...

Silk is one of the most luxurious fabrics in the world, and its creation starts with the fascinating process of raising silkworms. Farmers nurture these tiny creatures as they spin their delicate ...

The Silklab at Tufts is a misnomer in a sense. While the lab is working with silk, a textile humans have been using for over ...

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 ...

Five hundred and fifty-two A.D. Nestorian monks, who would later become Emperor Justinian, brought silkworm eggs to Europe by smuggling them out of China. As a consequence, the silk industry in the ...

The monks then presented the eggs to Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in Constantinople, where he created a thriving silk industry. Silkworms reached Italy through Sicily in the 12th century ...

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 Yizhou District of Hechi City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, sci-tech enabled modern sericulture and ...

Kraig Labs successfully engineered the largest known spider silk gene insert into silkworm—nearly doubling the previous record. This breakthrough represents a major step toward creating next ...

When walking into local silk reeling workshops ... invented machines and tools that can automatically place mature silkworms onto cocooning tools or extract cocoons and its application rate ...