Researchers funded by the U.S. Navy have used gene-editing technology to make house spiders produce red fluorescent silk. This might seem like a quirky scientific novelty, but the breakthrough is a ...

Spotting a spider in your immediate vicinity can be a little intense, especially if you have a major fear of the creepy crawlers. And, when one shows up in your home, it can be downright freaky. With ...

The possibility of editing our genes once seemed more like science fiction than reality. Times have changed with the development of CRISPR-Cas9, a gene-editing tool first used in 2012. Gene editing is ...

You’ve probably come across more spiders or have even walked straight into spiderwebs recently, and that’s because the spider season in western Washington has begun. Well, kind of. Although spiders ...

Spinning their sticky webs in shadowy corners to capture mosquitoes, flies, wasps and cockroaches, the American house spider (aka common house spider) is more friend than foe. What they look like: The ...

Scientists have officially brought genetic engineering to the spider's web. For the first time, researchers have created a gene-edited spider that spins red fluorescent silk. Led by a team at the ...

Continuing the scientific theme of adding fluorescent proteins to everything that moves, this time spiders found themselves at the pointy end of the CRISPR-Cas9 injection needle. In a study by ...

I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to see a lot of spiders around my house. Up until I started doing some digging for this article, I didn’t know much about spiders. The little knowledge I did ...