THE silk-producing apparatus of the common silkworm provides a convenient system for the study of several aspects of the synthesis of fibrous proteins. It is particularly useful for the ...

Silk production, or sericulture, is the nearly 5000 year old process that supplies the world with its most prized threads ...

When silkworms were ... engineered gene through a process of homologous recombination. As the researchers report in Genes & Development (13, 511–515, 1999), the silk glands (see inset) and ...

Here, craftspeople produce silk in a tedious 30-step process. It all starts in fields like this one, where the worms' food is harvested. Silkworms only eat mulberry leaves. They contain vitamins ...

Using CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology, researchers modified the DNA of silkworms so that their silk-producing glands would instead create spider silk, which naturally has a protective layer ...

Traditionally an important role for women in the economy of rural regions, silk-making encompasses planting mulberry, raising silkworms, unreeling silk, making thread, and designing and weaving fabric ...

They make silk by hand in a tedious, 30-step process. Craftspeople feed the silkworms every four hours so they spin brilliantly yellow cocoons. And turning those cocoons into silk is even more ...

The silkworm is the larva of the silk moth. They molt four times before secreting threads of silk to weave their cocoons. After the cocoons are dried, they are boiled to draw out one thread of ...