Protein-packed, sustainable, and completely unexpected—silkworm sausage is here. We took these edible insects and turned them ...

At the facility in Bursa, northwestern Türkiye produces the country’s entire demand for silkworm eggs. As the last stop of ...

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RNA encoding those proteins was injected into silkworm eggs, along with a DNA template that would allow the egg to repair the chromosome by inserting a spider silk gene instead.

Silkworm managed an impressive 18-year lifespan across three base cities and several permutations of its roster, which—for the majority of it—remained Tim, Andy and Michael.

It's all about "the birds and the bees." And now, "the silkworm moths and the fruit flies." A chemical ecologist and a genetics researcher at the University of California, Davis, have joined forces to ...

The gene pool of silkworm resources at Southwest University in Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality has been confirmed as a national gene pool of the species with the longest history in China ...

Silkworm silk typically consists of protein fibers sheathed in a glue-like substance. That glue helps the silk fibers stick together in cocoons, but it’s an impediment to spinning it.

Silkworm cocoon silk is composed of fibroin and sericin proteins. Both are biocompatible, elastic, and tough. Silk fibroin has been shown to induce wound healing by increasing cell proliferation ...