The albino lizards could inform scientists working on human eye health. The tyrosinase gene is involved in eye development, both humans and anoles have it, but creatures like mice that we use as ...

Skittering among the Caribbean flora are anole lizards, tiny reptiles no bigger than a finger’s length. Sporting shades of grey, brown and green, island life has spurred the evolution of some 150 ...

The procedure took more than a year to perfect. But in the fall of 2018, Rasys, Menke, and the rest of their team hatched the world’s first gene-edited non-avian reptile: a red-eyed albino anole ...

Scientists have genetically modified reptiles for the first time, to create tiny mutant albino lizards. The team used the CRISPR-Cas-9 technique to edit the DNA of the Anolis sagrei, or brown ...