Beginning a chain of events that will presumably lead to the origin of our universe's Spider-Man, researchers in Germany have ...

The U.S. military is interested in ‘super spiders’ capable of producing silk with extraordinary features. Don’t worry—it ...

For years, the CRISPR-Cas9 genome technology has been reshaping genetic engineering, a precision tool to transform everything ...

Scientists created the world's first gene-edited spider, which spins webs that glow red under the right lighting conditions.

CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful gene editing system that has revolutionized our ability to treat disease and probe the human genome. CRISPR has been used to edit the genomes of animals, plants, and microbes ...

Cas9, the University of Bayreuth’s Biomaterials research group was able to bioengineer a common house spider to produce ...

Gene-edited spiders had never been seen before. Then University of Bayreuth researchers used CRISPR Cas-9 to give spiders red ...

US Navy-backed scientists genetically modified spiders to create stronger, lighter silk with potential uses in defense, ...

Scientists have bred spiders that weave red draglines, proving that the animals’ silk can be genetically re-engineered.

Understanding how the stretching process strengthens spider silk is a key part of helping design stronger, biodegradable, silk-inspired materials for various applications. When spiders spin their webs ...