Albino Lizard

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.

A powerful gene-editing technology known as CRISPR has led to recent breakthroughs in mice, plants and humans, but getting the technology to work on reptiles had proved impossible because of key reproductive differences.

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.

A powerful gene-editing technology known as CRISPR has led to recent breakthroughs in mice, plants and humans, but getting the technology to work on reptiles had proved impossible because of key reproductive differences.