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

The world's first super pan-genome map of the silkworm has been completed by scientists in Chongqing, according to a news release issued by Southwest University on Sunday.

A farmer works on silkworm cocoons at Nagaa Awni village in Egypt in September. [Photo/Xinhua] BEHEIRA, Egypt — Nagaa Awni, located in Beheira governorate about 200 kilometers from the Egyptian ...

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.

To create their silkworm-spider fibers, Mi and their fellow researchers first implanted spider silk protein genes from Araneus ventricosus, an East Asian orb-weaving spider, into silkworm DNA.

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 ...

TOKYO, July 26 (Reuters) - On a recent vacation in Tokyo, Takumi Yamamoto opted for a special lunch of cricket curry and silkworm sashimi, washed down with a water bug cider.

Yet despite decades of research, many aspects of natural silkworm spinning remain a mystery. Selected as front cover in the prestigious Advanced Materials journal, IFM and Sheffield researchers have ...

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 ...