David Kaplan has been working with silk for decades, molding and shaping it into scaffolds, sponges, and films. His lab, the Kaplan Lab, is strewn with the substance, stacked with cases of silk ...

BARONG inspired by artworks of Ed Calma, Arturo Luz et al. When Jean Goulbourn was deciding what to name her line of handwoven silk fabrics and fashion 18 years ago, a friend suggested “Cocon de Soie.

For centuries, Thailand has produced premium silk fabrics, exported around the globe. However, biomedical researchers at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok have found another use for the fiber: to ...

LANSING -- Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc. (OTCQB:KBLB) said Monday that silkworm hatchlings from the first stage of its Monster Silk pilot production program have now spun cocoons -- and that as ...

The development and successful testing of a method for unreeling the strands of silk in wild silkworm cocoons could clear the way for establishment of new silk industries not only in Asia but also in ...

What do a non-stick pan, a raincoat and a medical stent have in common? They all have water-repelling properties that resist water uptake or degradation by hydrolysis. Hydrophobicity, the capacity to ...