In much the same way that silk cocoons unravel, silk unravels, too, when rid of its sericin and transformed into an aqueous solution of pure fibroin fiber. Perfected by Kaplan in the 1990s ...

A silk fibroin screw fabricated with golden nanorods can be heated to 160 C when exposed to infrared light emitted by an LED. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy ...

and fiber from the worms containing the fusion gene glowed green. A major advantage of this approach is that the foreign DNA is inserted specifically at the site of the silkworm's own fibroin gene ...

In much the same way that silk cocoons unravel, silk unravels, too, when rid of its sericin and transformed into an aqueous solution of pure fibroin fiber. Perfected by Kaplan in the 1990s, this ...