In a quiet lab in Bayreuth, Germany, a team of researchers has achieved what has long eluded geneticists: modifying the genome of a spider to create a living organism capable of producing fluorescent ...

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 ...

Yet, working with spider silk proved a particularly intricate problem ... Mist debuted on the Nederlands Dans Theater website in January 2022. Writer and Wallpaper* Contributing Editor Mary Cleary is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Researchers have coaxed common silkworms to spin a more durable, eco ...

Researchers at Tufts University’s Silklab have developed sticky fibers inspired by spider silk that may be the closest real-life example of Spider-Man’s web shooters we’ve ever seen.