Beginning a chain of events that will presumably lead to the origin of our universe's Spider-Man, researchers in Germany have ...

Researchers used gene-editing technique CRISPR to modify the DNA sequences of house spiders, causing them to produce red ...

In a quiet lab in Bayreuth, Germany, a team of researchers has achieved what has long eluded geneticists: modifying the ...

CRISPR-Cas9 is a powerful gene editing system that has revolutionized our ability to treat disease and probe the human genome. CRISPR has been used to edit the genomes of animals, plants, and microbes ...

A team of researchers from University of Bayreuth have used genetic modification on common house spiders to study the underrepresented organism and produce functionable spider silk protein. Scroll to ...

The U.S. military is interested in ‘super spiders’ capable of producing silk with extraordinary features. Don’t worry—it ...

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 student Edgardo ...

In 2012, scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier replicated this mechanism found in microbes to develop a ...

Scientists created the world's first gene-edited spider, which spins webs that glow red under the right lighting conditions.

On May 12, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a long-awaited decision in Regents of the University of California v.