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Spider silk has been seen as a greener alternative to artificial fibres like nylon and Kevlar, but spiders are notoriously hard to farm. Now researchers have used CRISPR to genetically engineer silkworms that produce pure spider silk
By working out which small mutations will probably be damaging, Google DeepMind鈥檚 AlphaMissense system could help doctors identify the cause of genetic diseases