Usually, a female silkworm lays about 500 to 600 eggs on mulberry leaves before it dies. These silkworm eggs are hatched into ...

IN silkworms, it has been found that tyrosine is used not only for biosynthesis of the silk proteins 1, but also to form melanin pigments, but little is known of its origin. The present work was ...

NAGANO: Researchers at Shinshu University and another institution have developed an odour-detecting drone that uses antennae ...

In the mid 1800s, a pervasive disease decimated silkworm agriculture in France. In an effort to save the silk-production industry, the French government persuaded Louis Pasteur, well-respected for ...

International Business Times unpacks INO Armor's founding, which was shaped by a near-fatal tragic event, and explores the ...

The undegummed silk fibre. Photo: Freyla Ferguson/IFM Silkworm silk is a protein-based fibre with mechanical properties rivalling synthetic fibres and spun using a fraction of the energy. Yet despite ...

The university, known as a world-class institution for silkworm studies, hopes to start clinical research for the vaccine as early as fiscal 2021. The vaccine could be mass-produced at an ...

Montana indie rock greats Silkworm, whose original run was 1987 – 2005, are reuniting for their first official shows in 20 years. The news came via Vish Khana’s Kreative Kontrol podcast ...

Silkworm, the Missoula, Montana, indie-rock band founded by Andy Cohen, Joel RL Phelps, and Tim Midyett in the 1980s, are reuniting. In a new interview on the Kreative Kontrol podcast with Vish ...

These are the remnants of silkworm larvae, stricken by the white blight and left to wither. Unfulfilled in their transformation, they bear their natural pallor. Ingredients are items that are ...