Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Humans have been making silk for centuries. It's a coveted textile for gowns, sheets, and robes. But why is it so expensive? Silk is the product of ...

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A simple, inexpensive dip-and-dry treatment can convert ordinary silk into a fabric that kills disease-causing bacteria — even the armor-coated spores of microbes like anthrax — in minutes, scientists ...

Silk has always been associated with luxury and royalty, but recently, a particular variation—crushed silk—has made its way into the limelight. Silk has its early traces in China, where it was first ...

Leather is an ever growing multi-billion dollar industry requiring more than 3.8 billion bovine animals - equal to one for every two people on earth - to sustain production each year. And while the ...

A simple, inexpensive dip-and-dry treatment can convert ordinary silk into a fabric that kills disease-causing bacteria -- even the armor-coated spores of microbes like anthrax -- in minutes.

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La DoubleJ and Shanghai-based Ruohan Nie use silk in almost all their collections, while Zimmermann and Ralph Lauren also featured the fabric in recent shows For millennia, humans have carefully ...