One of the reasons this has never occurred previously is that, in a laboratory, spiders are challenging organisms to handle.
Their varied group is based on a complicated genomic structure, hence they must be grown separately; otherwise, their cage neighbors will be consumed due to their cannibalistic character.
Nevertheless, new Parasteatoda tepidariorum discoveries have made this species a study model possible.
The aim of the study team was spider silk. Being five times stronger than a steel wire of the same weight, tear-resistant, biodegradable, lightweight, elastic, and scientifically fascinating, spider silk is an amazing material.
The scientists created an injectable solution to genetically alter the nightmare of this arachnophobe. This includes a red fluorescent protein gene sequence with a gene-editing method as well.
After that, this solution was put into unfertilized female spiders inside oocytes; when these spiders mated with men, the genetically altered progeny came of course.
