Ashley with one of her teeny albino anoles. University of Georgia The albino lizards could inform scientists working on human eye health. The tyrosinase gene is involved in eye development ...

Manipulating this gene, Rasys explains, also made for an easy marker of success: If the procedure ended up generating albino anoles down the line, they’d be pretty tough to miss. After rounding ...

A group of scientists at the University of Georgia have successfully altered the genes of four brown anole lizards ... come out without pigment. So an albino lizard was a sure sign that the ...

The mutation introduced in the unfertilized eggs of female brown anole (Anolis sagrei) lizards led to the birth of albino offspring. Gene editing in reptiles is considered difficult because of ...

What's scaly, striped and breathes underwater like a scuba diver? Water anoles, a semi-aquatic lizard found in the tropical forests of southern Costa Rica. These green-brown water anoles can dive ...

Scientists at University of Georgia bred four brown anole lizards to be albino pink instead of their typical brown, according to New Atlas. The findings show that CRISPR gene-editing tech is more ...

A team of scientists at the University of Georgia has now overcome these challenges to successfully make albino anole lizards, and say it could help us better understand vision problems in humans ...

Skittering among the Caribbean flora are anole lizards, tiny reptiles no bigger than a finger ... For example, the scientists generated albino lizards using the gene-editing technology CRISPR. Since ...

to create tiny mutant albino lizards. The team used the CRISPR-Cas-9 technique to edit the DNA of the Anolis sagrei, or brown anole lizard, which is around the size of an index finger. Of the eggs ...

A team of scientists at the University of Georgia has now overcome these challenges to successfully make albino anole lizards, and say it could help us better understand vision problems in humans ...

In the end, four albino anole lizards were born out of the experiment. Interestingly, the team notes that both male and female genes have to be altered to be able to produce the coloration change.