FUKUOKA--Kyushu University has used silkworms to develop a protein that could become a candidate vaccine for COVID-19, officials said. The university, known as a world-class institution for ...

All failed. After the American Revolution, members of Congress and others promoted the planting of mulberry trees to grow silkworms which would lead to the American manufacture of silk fabric.

This latest batch of silkworms is part of the Company’s ongoing expansion of its proprietary spider silk production technologies. The Company's production team and sericulture experts have been ...

His efforts from 1865 to 1870 led to the discovery that the disease affecting the silkworms was really two separate parasitic infections — known as pébrine and flacherie. The agents causing ...

In the cities of Trento and Rovereto in northern Italy and Bangkok in Thailand, scientists are busy rearing silkworms in ...

Sixteen species of insects, such as crickets, silkworms and grasshoppers ... for human consumption in a bid to feed the world’s growing population in a more affordable and sustainable way.

While many citizens have been figuratively cocooning during the COVID-19 pandemic, Empress Masako has literally been engaged in the practice, helping to raise silkworms at the Imperial Palace in ...