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Scientists use silk from the tasar silkworm as a scaffold for heart tissue

(PhysOrg.com) -- Damaged human heart muscle cannot be regenerated. Scar tissue grows in place of the damaged muscle cells. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Silkworms spinning spider webs

(PhysOrg.com) -- A spiders silk is strong and more elastic and has a large range of possible medical applications. However, spiders have a history of being territorial and prone to cannibalism, so the idea ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 03, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Spider know-how could cut future energy costs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Oxford University and The University of Sheffield have demonstrated that natural silks are a thousand times more efficient than common plastics when it comes to forming fibres.  

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

First practical scientific test to date and authenticate priceless silk masterpieces

Scientists are reporting development of the first fast and reliable scientific method to determine the age and authenticity of priceless silk tapestries and other treasures -- such as Civil War General Phillip ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Utah researcher helps artist make bulletproof skin

A bio-art project to create bulletproof skin has given a Utah State researcher even more hope his genetically engineered spider silk can be used to help surgeons heal large wounds and create artificial tendons ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Firm uses genetic modification to coax spider silk from silkworms

(PhysOrg.com) -- In what many in the textile industry have for years been calling the holy grail of materials science, genetic engineers from Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc. have succeeded, using Sigma Life ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

New silkworm diet produces colored silk and possible medical advantages

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) in Singapore has developed a way to replace the traditional dying process necessary to make colored silk. A simple dietary change ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Silk protein boosts e-book efficiency: scientists

Taiwanese scientists said they had discovered that a protein created by silkworms in the production of silk can be used to manufacture a component that will make e-books more efficient.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Scientists genetically engineer silkworms to produce artificial spider silk (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A research and development effort by the University of Notre Dame, the University of Wyoming, and Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. has succeeded in producing transgenic silkworms capable ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 29, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Glue, fly, glue: Caddisflies' underwater silk adhesive might suture wounds

Like silkworm moths, butterflies and spiders, caddisfly larvae spin silk, but they do so underwater instead on dry land. Now, University of Utah researchers have discovered why the fly's silk is sticky when ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Why silkworms find mulberries attractive

A new study published online on May 7th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, has found the source of silkworms' attraction to mulberry leaves, their primary food source. A jasmine-scented chemical emitte ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A new twist in the sex life of silk worms

(PhysOrg.com) -- A quirk in the sex life of the silkworm (Bombyx mori) has been revealed by a team of CSIRO Food Futures Flagship scientists led by Dr Alisha Anderson.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1