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
Maru Maru Mori Mori! full-length download to cellphones. Sankei Sports reported that "Maru Maru Mori Mori!" crossed the 250 thousand album sales mark as of 17 July 2011. This makes the group the first Japanese group under 10 years old to exceed 200 thousand sales mark in over 35 years, the last person to do so being Kawahashi Hiroshi with his single "Yamaguchi-sanchi no Tsutomu-kun". On 16 August 2011, Oricon reported that this singles managed to remain in the top 10 list for 12 weeks in a row. Amongst singles released by an artist under 10 years old, "Maru Maru Mori Mori!" now holds