In this series, Wallpaper* discovers the processes by which creative visionaries bring their work to life. First up, we head to the the Fonteyne Studio at the Royal Opera House to meet esteemed ballet ...

The V&A is Britain’s national museum of design, performance and applied arts, and the storehouse holds aisle after aisle of ...

A research team has found that a common spider kills its prey with poison but does not inject it into them—instead, it covers ...

Explore the fascinating world of spider web construction and learn the beauty in these intricate designs found in nature.

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 ...

This might seem like a quirky scientific novelty, but the breakthrough is a critical step toward modifying spider silk properties and creating new “supermaterials” for industries ranging from ...

Using CRISPR-Cas9, the University of Bayreuth’s Biomaterials research group was able to bioengineer a common house spider to produce glowing red silk. Professor Thomas Scheibel and doctoral ...

For the first time, researchers have created a gene-edited spider that spins red fluorescent silk. Led by a team at the University of Bayreuth, the project tackled a long-standing challenge in ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (OTCQB: KBLB) ("Company" or "Kraig Labs"), a world leader in spider silk technology*, announces today the ...

"We have demonstrated, for the first time worldwide, that CRISPR-Cas9 can be used to incorporate a desired sequence into spider silk proteins, thereby enabling the functionalisation of these silk ...