World’s first gene-edited spider produces red fluorescent silk

Gene therapy all the way down!

A lot of things eat a lot of other things too. The only concern I can think of is being afraid that something worse might somehow fulfill its biological niche.

A lot of things eat them

I think that's the goal! Mosquitos are already being fought this way where genetically modified males are introduced to the environment who are stronger and faster than the locals but their offsprings are sterile. It's a wildly effective strategy!

Why not edit them to be sterile eventually. Do they really provide a real benefit?

Yeah so they kamikaze

I don't want no trans genes in my spiders! I thought trump was getting rid of DEI!

Lil guy’s got panache comin out the wazoo, literally

I imagine someone pitched spider man shooting red and blue webs in the early 2000s, was shot down for that being unrealistic, and now feels super vindicated

Only when we also get the same spider to make blue as well.

Exactly what I thought when I first mis-read it as "gene-edit**ing**" instead of "gene-edit**ed**" and thought Spiderman!

Man-made horrors.

>The CL1 computer is the first in the world that combines human neurons with a silicon chip. It could be used in disease modeling and drug discovery before it expires after six months.

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Yes very realistic fear! Tell me Jonny Cockblock, how would you get close enough for it to fall on your head before you get sucked into its spinny thing and get blended?

I thought you would ask why I called you Jonny Cockblock…😭😭😭

I would have said because you cockblocked me from ur mam 😭😭😭

Wind turbines are huge and scary. Imagine it falls on your head?

Those computers with neurons are hard at work

Yeah but from his ass

No, he just looks horrifying. That's it. Terrifyingly ugly man-spider thing. That's his superpower.

Produces red fluorescent silk?

Man-spider, Man-spider, does whatever a man-spider does

In this timeline there's no way Spider-Man isn't a billionaire super villain.

Yeah, what if it bites someone. That could end up causing a mutation in them that gives them spider powers. Like some sort of man-spider that would be a menace to society.

Look I wish we were at the point where we could make unspeakable horrors even if only on accidents, it would make the field I am studying a lot lot lot more fun!

Gene editing is rllllly not scawy if you look into it, only the same folks rage against it who fear wind turbines and deny global warming

Well it's about time. The attic could use a little panache.

So where do we go to get bit? For Uncle Ben.

Using fluorescent proteins is a first step because it is easy to verify that the transgene is expressed where you want it to be expressed.

Can we gene edit ticks to not carry diseases? Same with skitters please!

I see no way this could *possibly* go wrong.

What happens if it bites a human? Also, unrelated, how would I get access to be bitten by the spider?

I feel like I should be horrified by this. And yet, I think it's pretty cool.

>Some spooky thoughts about it also there are already glow in a dark domestic flowers

OMG if we can get glow in the dark spider silk so I can avoid walking through them in the summertime near our garage door that would be great.

So, when this results in a new Spider-Man, he can weave his own outfit?

The Ghormins will be very interested in their careers.

Now if only we could gene-edit article writers to include photos of the thing in question. Where's the red, fluorescent silk?

It's almost time for Spider Man in real life! Can you see it on the horizon? It will be outlined by the eerie red glow of spiderwebs.

Jeez, and here I am reading Jurassic Park.

Why can't we just modify fruit flys instead