Silk craft villages have dotted Vietnam for hundreds of years. They make silk by hand in a tedious, 30-step process. Craftspeople feed the silkworms every four hours so they spin brilliantly ...

As the researchers report in Genes & Development (13, 511–515, 1999), the silk glands (see inset) and fiber from the worms containing the fusion gene glowed green. A major advantage of this ...

Narrator: Lotus flowers, worms, and muga moths are the unlikely source of one of the most delicate and luxurious fibers in the world: silk. Known for its unique sheen and luster, silk has been ...

Pharmaceutical giant Kowa Co. said it has created an exceptionally durable and environmentally friendly new textile from the gossamer silk of bagworm moth larvae. In its Nov. 20 announcement, Kowa ...

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Katsuma and his team established that Fem-derived RNA is a single factor that contributes to sex determination in silkworms, but the end goal is to find a way to produce all-male populations of the ...