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World's First CRISPR-Edited Spiders Shoot Fluoro Red Silk From Their Butt


Beginning a chain of events that will presumably lead to the origin of our universe's Spider-Man, researchers in Germany have created the world's first spiders to be genetically modified using CRISPR technology.

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