{"id":85123,"date":"2019-04-09T16:18:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T10:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2019-04-09T16:18:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T10:48:41","slug":"introducing-the-worlds-first-gene-edited-lizard-an-albino-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/introducing-the-worlds-first-gene-edited-lizard-an-albino-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the world\u2019s first gene-edited lizard, an albino"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Four brown anole lizards (a type of tropical\nlizard) have been genetically modified using the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool.\nThis is the world&#8217;s first successful attempt at producing a genetically\nmodified reptile.<\/li><li>The researchers from University of Georgia, USA\nhad used CRISPR-Cas9 to fertilize the immature eggs of anole lizards and\nproduce four pink albino offspring. <\/li><li>Scientists are of the opinion that the successful\nresearch would help the study of human medicine, particularly the eye.<\/li><li>Genome\/Gene editing is the deliberate alteration\nof a selected DNA sequence in a living cell. It involves editing an organism\u2019s\nDNA by altering, removing or adding nucleotides to the genome.<\/li><li>CRISPR-Cas9 (&#8216;Clustered Regularly Inter-Spaced\nPalindromic Repeats&#8217;) is a tool used for gene editing. The technique involves a\nDNA cutting enzyme and a small tag which tells the enzyme where to cut. Cas9\nstands for CRISPR-associated protein 9, and is the nuclease part that cuts the\nDNA.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four brown anole lizards (a type of tropical lizard) have been genetically modified using the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool. This is the world&#8217;s first successful attempt at producing a genetically modified reptile. The researchers from University of Georgia, USA had used CRISPR-Cas9 to fertilize the immature eggs of anole lizards and produce four pink albino&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/introducing-the-worlds-first-gene-edited-lizard-an-albino-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Introducing the world\u2019s first gene-edited lizard, an albino<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2299,2300],"class_list":["post-85123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-gene-editing","tag-genetically-modified-reptile","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704764921},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}