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

The University of Bayreuth's Biomaterials research group has, for the first time, successfully applied the CRISPR-Cas9 ...

Scientists have bred spiders that weave red draglines, proving that the animals’ silk can be genetically re-engineered.

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While silk protein has been deployed in designer electronics ... step in controlled silk layering on functional electronic components. Key areas of future research include improving the stability ...

So Lewis and his team have had to turn to other methods. Lewis: In terms of the spider silk protein, we've got to find a cheap way to make it. Narrator: Randy and his team took the spider silk ...

“Spiders make very little silk and are quite territorial. So, the only way to do it is to make microbes that make the protein,” said David Breslauer, cofounder and chief technology officer at Bolt ...

While spider silk proteins are something you can make in your garage, making useful drag line fibers has proved a daunting challenge. Now, a team of scientists from Japan and Hong Kong are closer ...

Scheibel and his doctoral student Edgardo Santiago-Rivera developed an injection solution that included the components ... in their dragline silk – clear evidence of the successful knock-in of the ...