The spider’s (and silkworm’s) conversion of the liquid dope to the solid fibre occurs through a strain-induced phase separation 12, 17, 19. With rheometry, the study of flow and deformation of ...

Silkworm silk is a protein-based fibre with mechanical properties rivalling synthetic fibres and spun using a fraction of the energy. Yet despite decades of research, many aspects of natural silkworm ...

Once the silkworm completes its cocoon, the farmer snatches his cocoon from him, to prevent the shrunken chrysalis, carefully encased inside, from hatching into a moth in 12 days. The silk farmers ...

The silkworm genome map has the largest long-read pan-genome sequencing of the world's plants and animals, and is of the highest quality, according to Dai.

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 ...

The National Genetic Resources Bank of the Silkworm in Chongqing — the first of its kind in China — was listed recently as one of 12 new genetic resource protection units for State-level ...

J.K. Rowling is back with another mystery under her pseudonym, Robert Galbraith. Her new whodunit, The Silkworm, features detective Cormoran Strike and his quest to find missing author Owen Quine ...

Licking its lips imperiously, a ginger cat mops up every last morsel of food from its curly whiskers, clearly undaunted by its supper’s rather unusual base ingredient – silkworm pupae. The 15 ...

Silkworm hold a place among the unknown rock 'n' roll elite, which is kind of a bummer, in a way. Then again, the same could probably be said of other artists that share this same fate. After all ...