World’s First CRISPR-Edited Spider Produces Glowing Red Silk From Its Spinneret

World’s First CRISPR-Edited Spider Produces Glowing Red Silk From Its Spinneret

Genetically modified spider… don’t tell Peter Parker!

For the first time in the world, genetic engineers from Germany used CRISPR-Cas9 techniques to edit the genes of a home spider. He was taught to stick red fluorescent web. This is the first step towards understanding whether a web could be used for human needs, wrote IFLScience. The project was carried out by researchers from the University of Bayroit. The web is considered to be scientifically interesting because it is five times as strong as a…