How to pronounce “silkworm” in English

Silkworms.

Do silkworms have feelings?

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we're taking the genetics of a silkworm, and the genetics of a spider, and we're putting those together.

They have to become part of the silkworm's own DNA.

Would you like it where the silkworm has been harmed?

- That's why getting the spider silk gene into the silkworm isn't enough.

Here, that spot is inside the silkworm's own gene for making silk.

You know, sometimes they actually burn the silkworms.

- So the researchers at Kraig wondered, "What if we could make the silkworm spin spider silk instead?" - When we create a transgenic silkworm,

- The fluid carrying the spider DNA is then injected into the part of the egg that will eventually become the silkworm.

If everything works, it becomes a permanent part of the silkworm's genome.

This, together with separate instructions for making the enzyme, is what's then injected into the silkworm egg.

And inside the egg, the enzyme recognizes the familiar end sequences and cuts and inserts the spider silk gene into the silkworm's DNA.

- The next step is to create pure, what are called knock-in/knockout transgenics where we will completely remove all aspects of the silkworm's native DNA for the silk,