{"id":544831,"date":"2023-09-21T22:52:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T04:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/cientificos-modifican-geneticamente-gusanos-de-seda-para-tejer-seda-de-arana-eacr\/"},"modified":"2023-09-21T22:57:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T04:57:24","slug":"scientists-genetically-modify-silkworms-to-spin-spider-silk-eacr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/en\/scientists-genetically-modify-silkworms-to-spin-spider-silk-eacr\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists genetically modify silkworms to spin spider silk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A pioneering breakthrough in China has made it possible to produce spider silk, famous for its incredible strength, using an unexpected source: silkworms.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"aligncenter wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1296\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/imagen_telaraya_kjhg-bspline.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"-\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/imagen_telaraya_kjhg-bspline.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/imagen_telaraya_kjhg-bspline-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/imagen_telaraya_kjhg-bspline-1024x533.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/imagen_telaraya_kjhg-bspline-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/imagen_telaraya_kjhg-bspline-1200x625.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in spider silk production by genetically modifying silkworms, offering significant potential for diverse applications beyond clothing, including surgical sutures and smart materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spider silk, known for its remarkable strength and potential environmental advantages over synthetic fibers, has long been of interest to researchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researchers led by Junpeng Mi, a doctoral student at Donghua University&#8217;s School of Biological Sciences and Medical Engineering, achieved a breakthrough by genetically modifying silkworms. These genetically modified silkworms can now produce viable spider silk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/imagen-seda-de-gusano-kjh.jpg\" alt=\"-\" class=\"wp-image-544827\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/imagen-seda-de-gusano-kjh.jpg 525w, https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/imagen-seda-de-gusano-kjh-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/imagen-seda-de-gusano-kjh-450x600.jpg?crop=1 450w, https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/imagen-seda-de-gusano-kjh-300x400.jpg?crop=1 300w, https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/imagen-seda-de-gusano-kjh-150x200.jpg?crop=1 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unlike spiders, silkworms are much easier to mass-breed. Scientists have used the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technique to introduce spider silk protein genes into the DNA of silkworms, allowing these proteins to be expressed in their glands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This achievement could pave the way for large-scale production of spider silk and open up new possibilities in materials engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pioneering breakthrough in China has made it possible to produce spider silk, famous for its incredible strength, using an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":544825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"two_page_speed":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[110317],"tags":[112394,112401,108933,112399,112400,112402],"class_list":["post-544831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ciencia-noticias-en","tag-crispr-en","tag-genetic-modification","tag-genetics","tag-materials","tag-silkworm","tag-spider-silk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/imagen_telaraya_kjhg-bspline.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdR79Q-2hJB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":544031,"url":"https:\/\/cerebrodigital.net\/en\/scientists-succeed-in-producing-electricity-from-deadly-bacteria-eacr\/","url_meta":{"origin":544831,"position":0},"title":"Scientists succeed in producing electricity from deadly bacteria","author":"Andrey Robles","date":"September 10, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Scientists at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) have achieved a groundbreaking breakthrough by engineering E. coli bacteria to produce electricity. 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