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Stories about: silkworms

Spider-Silkworm Mutant Produces Strongest Silk Genetically-modified silkworms have been a goal for breeders for years. The most important goal that researchers tried for was to insert spider silk proteins into the silkworms, so that the latter would have been able to produce stronger silk. After years of failure, that objective was finally reached. Successful c... 4 January 2012 09:55 GMT Transgenic Silkworms Can Produce Stronger Silk In an advancement that could enable the large-scale production of super-strong, tough and flexible silk, researchers managed to manipulate silkworms in such a manner that they can now produce silk that is stronger than steel.With the recent genetic breakthrough, a single colony of transgenic silkworms was able to pro... 4 October 2010 11:09 GMT Silk Research Yields New Materials Silkworms and spiders may seem like small insects to us, but they are the keepers of a secret that scientists would pay a mind-boggling sum of money to learn. These creatures are the only ones that can produce natural silk, a material that is highly-flexible, yet tougher than steel and Kevlar. The compound has been w... 30 July 2010 06:52 GMT