Unfortunately, you land in literal hot water. Your worm brain can’t really process this, but you’ve just crashed into the teacup of legendary Chinese empress Leizu. As you die in the hot tea, your ...

Countless engineering solutions are hiding in plain sight. We just have to look more closely at the natural world.

The company’s lead product, Dragon Silk, begins as fibers drawn from the cocoons of transgenic silkworms. (Cocoon racks are shown in the main image.) Dragon Silk fibers (inset) are significantly ...

World's First Commercially Viable Silkworms for Recombinant Spider Silk Production Larger BAM-1 Cocoons pictured on right ...

AOMORI--Is it a cloud? Cotton candy? An alarmingly large silkworm cocoon, perhaps? Named Youna—meaning “similar to”—the handcrafted lamp could be any of those things, or none at all.

Now, thanks to an enzyme that allows silkworms to break out of their cocoons and fly away as butterflies, she is finally pain-free. 'For years, I took strong prescription painkillers and had ...

At an industrial park in the province, self-developed automated and digitalized production lines have enabled the stable mass production of silkworm cocoons. This integration of industrialized ...

Since their debut earlier this year, the BAM-1 hybrids have proven to be a transformative innovation, driving significant advancements in silk production, cocoon size, yield, and silkworm robustness.