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mr715

(4,067 posts) Fri May 8, 2026, 08:01 PM Friday

Next step in my work is establishing strains that will carry the mutation.

We are living in the golden age of biology.

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I successfully used crispr to edit mosquitoes! [View all] mr715 Friday OP

My bug zapper does that too! erronis Friday #1

The handheld ones are very satisfying. mr715 Friday #2

Cool. What kind of gene did you insert? NNadir Friday #3

Tryptophan hydroxylase. mr715 Friday #4

It is amazingly well conserved. mr715 Saturday #6

Yeah. mr715 Saturday #8

Here is a link to it in uniprot mr715 Saturday #10

Yes, it has a fully sequenced genome. mr715 Saturday #12