The history of the silkworm disease in Italy and France bears witness to the enormous value, even if measured in a commercial sense, of the labours of Pasteur, Quatrefages, and others in working ...

In the mid 1800s, a pervasive disease decimated silkworm agriculture in France. In an effort to save the silk-production industry, the French government persuaded Louis Pasteur, well-respected for ...

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At the time, raw silk became the country's largest export, as the silk industries in France and Italy had been hit by an epidemic of silkworm disease. At one point, Japan was the world's biggest ...

Silkworms can produce target proteins in their ... proteins to develop vaccines against hypothetical, new infectious diseases. “People around the world are working to create vaccines, but ...

We also aim to crossbreed Kenya’s disease-resilient subcultural silkworm species with Japanese species that have been bred over many years to achieve high silk productivity, in order to develop a ...