Spiders hold the market for the strongest silks but are too aggressive and territorial to be farmed. The next best alternative involves incorporating spider DNA into silkworms, an expensive and ...

As one of the strongest materials known to science, spider silk regularly finds itself at the center of exciting engineering breakthroughs, and a new study involving a quick chemical bath could take ...

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Bengaluru-based biotech startup Loopworm Private Ltd has developed a technology platform that produces protein from silkworm ...

Central Silk Board (CSB) has notified recently developed races—BDR-10, PM x FC2, and C2—of silkworm seed of mulberry and Vanya silk for increasing the productivity of cocoons and to increase the ...