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

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

For years, the CRISPR-Cas9 genome technology has been reshaping genetic engineering, a precision tool to transform everything ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...