In a quiet lab in Bayreuth, Germany, a team of researchers has achieved what has long eluded geneticists: modifying the ...

In addition, some species of spider are able to create silk that is the stronger than Kevlar and has many practical uses ...

Researchers used gene-editing technique CRISPR to modify the DNA sequences of house spiders, causing them to produce red ...

Getting enough silk is difficult. Spiders make the strongest silk that we know about. Unfortunately, spider silk is hard to come by—it’s certainly very hard to get enough for most uses ...

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have recently successfully bred the world’s first CRISPR-Cas9-modified spider to produce red fluorescent silk. For this work, they used a species of ...

An upcoming Spider-Man spin-off based on Marvel’s Silk is heading to Prime Video. Angela Kang, who served as showrunner on The Walking Dead, will head up Silk: Spider Society which also sees ...

The next best alternative involves incorporating spider DNA into silkworms, an expensive and difficult-to-scale process. Scientists now show how the silk naturally produced by silkworms can be ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Noir was to be the second in a suite of live-action Spider-Man Universe series for MGM+ and Prime Video. However, there was no mention at the upfront of the first, Silk: Spider Society.

If spiders use their webs like a large external eardrum, researchers reasoned, perhaps spider silk could be the basis for a powerful listening device. By Jordan Pearson Engineers and scientists ...

On October 6 in the journal Matter, scientists at Tianjin University show how the silk naturally produced by silkworms can be made 70% stronger than spider silks by removing a sticky outer layer ...