Team at Southwestern University develops improved silk textiles through silkworm genetic engineering

Nov 21, 2014

The team of Qingyou XIA, a Yangtze River Professor, succeeded to remove the fibroin H gene using genome editing techniques and inserted synthetic genes coding for fibroin variants with improved properties, e. g., higher stability.

China Bio news release, Nov. 21, 2014

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