The golden silk, a luxury once reserved for Roman emperors, has been recreated by modern scientists.

Today, silk is being examined for a wide range of medical uses, ranging from membranes to scaffolding to foster the healing of wounds. Silks used in research and medical settings undergo much harsher ...

South Bay History: Hermosa Beach’s Golden State Silk Mills becomes the West Coast’s first silk processing plant Exterior view of the new Golden State Silk Mills in Hermosa Beach. Oct. 27, 1925.

HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): The once-thriving silk thread industry in western Herat province has nearly vanished, with only one workshop left standing out of more than 250 that once buzzed with life and ...

Thermoplastic moulding of regenerated silk. Nature Materials, 2019; DOI: 10.1038/s41563-019-0560-8 ...

Last year the world's largest silk producer, Guangdong Silk-Tex Group, announced plans to create a silk processing factory and silk farm in Kenya. If successful, the venture is expected to create ...

The technical challenge in creating hybrid biological transistors was to achieve silk processing at the nanoscale, down to 10nm or less than 1/10000 th the diameter of a human hair.