Tag - Gene-Edited

First-ever Gene-edited Spider Creates red Fluorescent Silk

Credit: PixabayScientists at the University of Bayreuth have successfully engineered the world’s first spider modified with CRISPR-Cas9 to produce red fluorescent silk. They achieved this using the common house spider species Parasteatoda tepidariorum.Spiders' cannibalistic behavior and complex genomes make them hard to modify and breed in labs, limiting their use in research. To overcome...