Gadgets & Geeks/General Engineering/Biomedical Engineering

The Silk Road’s Turn Toward Biotechnology

This article is part of a spotlight on silk. Check out “The Medical Wonders of Worm Spit,” part of SciFri’s Macroscope video series, and this activity involving a silkworm cocoon dissection. There’s a glass cabinet of curiosities that stands in the corner of a windowed room of the silklab at Tufts University in Boston. Among […]