Imagine a tiny mouse with long, golden-brown fur that looks like it belongs on a woolly mammoth! As of a couple months ago, you don’t have to imagine- scientists at Colossal Biosciences recently created mice like this by using a…
In today’s data-driven world, few forms of personal information are as personal and revealing as genetic information. Genetic sequencing has become more widely available and used, from determining health predispositions to investigating ancestry. But this growing availability also poses significant…
Have you heard the story about some scientists trying to turn purple petunias more purple, and instead the petunias threw a tantrum and turned white? The theory I heard was that because the method to insert new genes into an…
This semester, I started doing animal work in a research lab that uses mice as model organisms. Every time I’ve explained my training to other people, I usually get a shocked response. And I know this isn’t a common thing…
CRISPR, an anacronym that stands for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats,” is a concept becoming quite ubiquitous in most biology classes and rapidly gaining familiarity among experimental medicine and biology discussion circles not to mention scientific publications and health-…
I have spent my life struggling to open jars, use scissors, play video games, and shake people’s hands because the world is built for the 90% of it who are right handed, the 90% that isn’t me. Like most lefties,…