Silk is a natural protein fiber primarily composed of fibroin. It is produced by certain insect larvae to form cocoons, the most notable being the mulberry silkworm, Bombyx mori. Silk is a luxurious ...

Silk, the queen of fibres, is drawn or reeled from cocoons of the silk moth (Bombyx mori). Humans domesticated it more than 5,000 years ago in China, from the wild moth (Bombyx mandarina).

“Increasing processing efficiency and cocoon yield was one of Kraig ... leading developer of genetically engineered spider silk-based fiber technologies. The Company has achieved a series ...

In much the same way that silk cocoons unravel, silk unravels, too, when rid of its sericin and transformed into an aqueous solution of pure fibroin fiber. Perfected by Kaplan in the 1990s, this ...

The U.S. military is interested in ‘super spiders’ capable of producing silk with extraordinary features. Don’t worry—it ...

With expert input from the University of Sheffield, a team of researchers from Deakin’s Institute for Frontier Materials’ (IFM) have delivered a world first in next generation materials research. The ...

In our case, dopamine is helping washing away the water from the silk fibroin solution and accelerating its transition into fiber, similar to what the silkworm does for spinning the cocoon but with ...

However, biomedical researchers at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok have found another use for the fiber ... in the cocoon. This isn’t as much of an issue for producing silk fabrics; but ...

A pioneering study conducted by Professor Fangyin Dai's team at Southwest University introduces a novel strategy for bone defect repair using flat silkworm cocoon (FSC) fiber scaffolds ...