I successfully used crispr to edit mosquitoes!

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5. That my friend, is very cool. I have to say that tryptophan has always been one of my favorite amino acids, probably...

...because of its neurological implications.

(Among other things, I'm an insomniac, so there's that.)

It would not have occurred to me, although it probably should have, that serotonin chemistry is neurologically conserved across animal species, but on reflection, it make sense that it is.

Is the hydroxylase in question fairly well conserved across animal species? It has been my pleasure to select appropriate peptides in cross species gene insertions to avoid conserved sequences.