Some Spiders Have Developed Red, Glowing Webs, but There's an Explanation for It

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Web spiders belong to a family of tens of thousands of species. They do what many spiders do: they weave nets to catch insects. Some of these spiders do not leave it with the normal threads. They can do what the coveted silk spider, which is also one of the web spiders: high-quality silk threads spin, which also fluoresce red. Synthetic production has failed These insects are "Children" by Professor Thomas Scheibl, holder of the Chair of Biomate…

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Some spiders have been subjected to complex gene editing. The goal was to make them produce a different type of spider silk or to find out what happens when the gene responsible for eye development is “turned off”.