In a striking demonstration of targeted knockout rats, scientists used zinc finger nucleases to deactivate a green fluorescent protein (GFP) transgene, which causes the rats to appear green under ...
Resulting animals had permanent heritable mutations, according to paper in Science. A group of scientists report the creation of the first genetically modified rats using Sangamo Biosciences zinc ...
Humans can genetically modify plants and animals to be more resilient to climate change and disease. But the scientific community is divided about whether the tool should be put to use in nature.