A startup creating a biodegradable ‘wool’ material from by-products of the Scottish shellfish sector has relocated its ...

The book’s most fascinating section is about sea silk—the hairlike protein filaments, sometimes called byssus, that root the enormous upright mollusk, Pinna nobilis (the noble pen), to the ...

Using mussel beards or byssus (the threads that help mussels attach to surfaces), the Scottish startup creates "seawool," ...

A seawool startup has relocated its headquarters to Glasgow in a move that it hopes will underpin future growth and shorten ...

THE available data about the structure of the byssus-making system, the functions of the various glands involved and the process by which the byssus is elaborated 1–3 have still to be clarified.