Scientists create albino lizards with CRISPR tech
An albino lizard created using powerful gene-editing technology known as CRISPR. Getting the technology to work on reptiles in the past proved impossible because of key differences in how they reproduce. – AFP pic, August 28, 2019.
A TEAM of scientists at the University of Georgia has successfully performed gene-editing on reptiles for the first time, creating a pair of albino lizards the size of a human index finger. In a paper describing the breakthrough in the journal Cell Press yesterday, the researchers said it could help us better understand vision problems in humans with albinism.
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