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2007-05-15 | permalink
Silkworms spin a rainbow - for now in yellow
Why take all the trouble to dye silk when silkworms can be genetically modified to spin any colour of the rainbow? [...] For starters, the researchers have produced silkworms that make yellow silk. But they say that in the future, the worms could be manipulated to produce flesh-coloured or reddish silk.
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2007-05-15 | permalink
Silkworms spin a rainbow - for now in yellow
Why take all the trouble to dye silk when silkworms can be genetically modified to spin any colour of the rainbow? [...] For starters, the researchers have produced silkworms that make yellow silk. But they say that in the future, the worms could be manipulated to produce flesh-coloured or reddish silk.
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