Bombyx mori support or restructure damaged ligaments, tendons, and other tissue. They also created implants made of silk and drug compounds which can be implanted under the skin for steady and gradual time release of medications. Researchers at the MIT Media Lab experimented with silkworms to see what they would weave when left on surfaces with different curvatures. They found that on particularly straight webs of lines, the worms would connect neighboring lines with silk, weaving directly onto the given shape. Using this knowledge they built a silk pavilion with 6,500 silkworms over a number of days. Silkworms have been used in
Mark Mori Mark Mori Mark Mori is an American documentary filmmaker, television producer and screenwriter of documentary and reality television series and specials. He produced and directed, "Bettie Page Reveals All", the authorized documentary film on life of pin-up model, Bettie Page, released in 2012. Previously, Mori produced and directed "Building Bombs", Academy Award nominee for Best Feature Documentary for 1990 (DVD release by Docurama/New Video in 2005), Executive Produced, "", documentary short Academy Award nominee for 1993; received an Emmy Award for the television documentary special, "Kent State, the Day the War Came" Home for 2000; co-produced "The Fire This Time",