A common house spider genetically modified using CRISPR/Cas9 produces red, fluorescent silk, according to researchers at Bayreuth University, Germany.
'The ability to apply CRISPR gene-editing to spider silk is very promising for materials science research – for example, it could be used to further increase the already high tensile strength of spider silk,' said senior author Professor Thomas Scheibel.
The work was published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. For more information, please visit New Atlas.