Silkworms (Tubifex sp) are a natural feed with high nutritional content and needed by fish, especially in the fry phase to support fish growth. Therefore, knowledge of food cultivation is success farming. Silkworm requires media organic content. Tofu pulp waste one that can be utilized for silkworm cultivation. The purpose this activity increase community skills utilizing tofu as medium provide...

The development of a spider silk-manufacturing process is of great interest. However, there are serious problems with natural manufacturing through spider farming, and standard recombinant protein production platforms have provided limited progress due to their inability to assemble spider silk proteins into fibers. Thus, we used piggyBac vectors to create transgenic silkworms encoding chimeric...

For a decade, mystery has surrounded the mechanisms by which piRNA biogenesis yields distinct size classes of small RNAs within individual PIWI proteins. In this issue of Cell, two studies shed light on this process, identifying conserved PARN-family exonucleases that trim piRNAs to their mature size in silkworms and C. elegans.

A medium has been developed in which certain cells from the gonads of female silkworms multiply and live for periods of 2 to 3 weeks. In such tissue cultures, strains of silkworm grasserie virus were maintained in successive passages up to the number of ten. The virus multiplied greatly and typical polyhedral bodies formed in the cells of infected cultures.

Silk is a functional protein biomaterial produced by variety of insects like flies, silkworms, scorpions, spiders, and mites. synthesized silkworms extensively studied for its applications in tissue engineering wound healing. undoubtedly natural biocompatible material with humans has role medical treatments from ancient times. The silk worm comprises two types proteins namely fibroin sericin. m...