Agro-Biotech News

A research group in the University of Bayreuth's Biomaterials research has, for the first time, successfully applied the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool to spiders. Following the genetic modification, the spiders produced red fluorescent silk. For their approach, Prof. Dr. Thomas Scheibel and his doctoral student Edgardo Santiago-Rivera developed an injection solution that included the components of the gene editing system as well as a gene sequence for a red fluorescent protein.