The story of silk is full of the extraordinary. First Paraguay and Suriname have caterpillars larger than any in Europe, ...

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 ...

The project was led by Dr. Xiaoli Zhang, the Company’s research manager, whose team continues to push the boundaries of genetic engineering for spider silk production.

Silkworm rearing is part of sericulture in which worms are raised for the production of raw silk. Silk worms are native to China and they feed on mulberry leaves. For commercial silkworm farming ...

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

In India’s Meghalaya, silkworm rearing and weaving are common in rural areas, now several women are using solar-powered ...

In a major boost to this shift, the Maharashtra government has launched a five-year sericulture development plan aimed at ...

India's raw silk production is estimated at 34,042 metric tonnes in the April-January period of 2024-25, which is a close t ...

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 ...