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

The personalized CRISPR treatment could be the future of gene therapy, but hurdles remain before everyone has access.

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 ...

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

The possibility of editing our genes once seemed more like science fiction than reality. Times have changed with 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 ...

Every living creature on Earth needs to protect itself from things that would do it harm. Bacteria are no different. And ...

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

Every living creature on Earth needs to protect itself from things that would do it harm. Bacteria are no different. And ...

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 ...

Scientists at the McGovern Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have reengineered a compact RNA-guided enzyme ...

Researchers have used a personalised base-editing gene therapy to successfully treat an infant with carbamoyl-phosphate ...