Unlike worm silk, each thread of lotus silk starts with ... We begin with these wiggly little silkworms in Nam Cao, Vietnam. They're responsible for spinning each of these tiny cocoons.

At present her small industry is enjoying ... machines which turn out some 20 lb. of raw silk per week. Some weeks ago after a batch of crossbred worms from France had begun to spin, the cocoons ...

Silk craft villages have dotted Vietnam for hundreds of years. They make silk by hand in a tedious, 30-step process. Craftspeople feed the silkworms every four hours so they spin brilliantly ...

As the researchers report in Genes & Development (13, 511–515, 1999), the silk glands (see inset) and fiber from the worms containing the fusion gene glowed green. A major advantage of this ...

Russian scientists have revived tiny worms that had been frozen for 42,000 years. After being removed from Siberian permafrost, the worms were gradually thawed in a lab until they started moving ...