In a quiet lab in Bayreuth, Germany, a team of researchers has achieved what has long eluded geneticists: modifying the genome of a spider to create a living organism capable of producing fluorescent silk. Using CRISPR-Cas9, the powerful…
No, This Isn’t a Spider-Man Reboot—Scientists Just Made the World’s First Genetically Modified “Spider” That Spins Red Glowing Silk
