Silk is not typically associated with Africa, but the luxurious cloth has been produced there for centuries. Moth to Cloth: Silk in Africa, an exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) now on view ...

Tougher than steel, lighter than cotton, and stubbornly elusive to produce. For decades, spider silk has been the material science has long promised but never quite delivered at scale. Now, a Michigan ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (OTCQB: KBLB) ("the Company" or "Kraig Labs"), the leading developer of commercially viable spider silk, is ...

Spider silk is widely considered a superfibre, a near magical material with potential medical and military applications. The problem is that cost-effective mass production has eluded scientists for ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (KBLB) ("the Company" or "Kraig Labs"), a world leader in spider silk technology*, is pleased to provide an ...

Are you looking for top-quality silk products that rival the finest in the world? If your answer is yes, you should visit the Don Mariano Marcos Memorial State University (DMMMSU) to witness how a ...

New Delhi: Silkworms, unlike the hungry caterpillar they resemble, have a preference for mulberry leaves. But India's textile ministry is hoping the moths will acquire a taste for the medicinal castor ...

The dragline silk of the spider Nephila clavipes has a high tensile strength that is comparable to that of the synthetic superfiber Kevlar, but it additionally shows high elasticity 1. Such ...

New research demonstrates procedures to harvest and process synthetic spider silk from bacteria. The procedure revolutionizes the spider silk purification process by standardizing a key step known as ...

(Illustrations from A Treatise on the Mulberry Tree and Silkworm and on the Manufacture and Production of Silk, 1839. Courtesy of York County Heritage Trust Library/Archives) Silk has been prized for ...

Spider silk is widely considered a superfiber, a near magical material with potential medical and military applications. The problem is that cost-effective mass production has eluded scientists for ...