Researchers have developed a novel, significantly more efficient fabrication method for silk that allows them to heat and mold the material into solid forms for a wide range of applications, including ...

Welcome back to the Fluctus Channel for a feature on the ancestral process of silk production and the silk fabric industry.

A German company is raising the ante on potential medical and industrial uses of silk polymers through development of a genetically engineered spider silk fiber it is commercializing under the name ...

During the 1920s, the small city of Hermosa Beach became the unlikely center of the West Coast silk industry with the arrival of the Golden State Silk Mills plant. Up until then, the silk industry had ...

The silk fibroin protein that silkworms spin into cocoons is prized for its mechanical properties. But the complex network of hydrogen-bonded β-sheets that give silk its strength and flexibility also ...

In the Silk Sanctuary of San Pedro Cajones in Oaxaca, Zapotec artisans work in partnership with silk worms to create ...