It'll be all white: US scientists create albino lizards with gene-editing tech

WASHINGTON - A team of scientists at the University of Georgia has succeeded in gene-editing reptiles for the first time, creating a pair of albino lizards the size of a human index finger.

In a paper describing the breakthrough in the journal Cell Press on Tuesday, the researchers said the lizards could help us better understand vision problems in humans with albinism.

The powerful gene-editing technology, known as CRISPR, has led to big breakthroughs in mice, plants and humans, but getting it to work with reptiles has been more difficult because of key reproductive differences.