Xinhua Silk Road: Small silkworms help build big modern industries in south China
In Yizhou District of Hechi City, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, sci-tech enabled modern sericulture and ...
Fashion Glamp on MSN15 天
The Silk Story: A Journey Through Time and Innovation
Have you ever wondered about the intricate tapestry of history woven through the delicate threads of silk? From ancient civilizations to modern-day fashion, the story of silk is as rich and varied as ...
来自MSN1 个月
Researchers surpass silkworm silk by taking a holistic approach
"Traditionally, industry has used degumming to unravel the silkworms cocoon to produce their fibers. It is also commonly used by researchers to facilitate 'unspinning' silk back into a solution ...
Business Insider2 年
How mountains of worm cocoons are turned into expensive silk in Vietnam
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 ...
sciencex1 年
Silk provides the building blocks to transform modern medicine
Silk moth caterpillars, known as silkworms, extrude a single sticky strand of silk from their mouths to form ... With a few steps in the lab, Tufts researchers can remove the sericin and dissolve the ...
Business Insider6 年
The amount of work that goes into creating silk makes it so expensive
That's the silk. The silkworms spin this filament into a cocoon. Then the caterpillar begins its transformation. Except, this is when silk producers butt in. The cocoons are steamed. This cleans ...
Cruelty-free karuna silk attires of deities at Puri's Shree Jagannath Temple
The new variant is being showcased at the 19th Toshali Mela, which commenced on Wednesday at Janata Maidan in Bhubaneswar ...
The Scientist7 年
Meet the Transgenic Silkworms That Are Spinning Out Spider Silk
From these eggs will hatch tiny silkworms, caterpillars of the domesticated silk moth Bombyx mori, which will then set to chomping down on mulberry leaves and preparing themselves for the demanding ...
Daily Mail1 天
How silkworms can end back pain
In nature, serrapeptase is made by bacteria which live in the intestines of silkworms. Secreted in their saliva, the enzyme is attracted to the dead or 'avital tissue' of the cocoon, which it ...
Nature25 天
Conversion of Phenylalanine into Tyrosine in the Silkworm Larva (Bombyx mori)
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 ...
Business Insider India6 年
Why silk is so expensive
That's the silk. The silkworms spin this filament into a cocoon. Then the caterpillar begins its transformation. Except, this is when silk producers butt in. The cocoons are steamed. This cleans ...