For the first time ever, scientists finally crack the code for editing marsupial genes

The MIT Technology Review reports that a team of scientists at the Riken Institute in Japan have made history by successfully bio-engineering albino possums, using CRISPR. This seems like a strange accomplishment, but as the magazine explains:

CRISPR has been used to modify the genes of tomatoes, humans, and just about everything in between.

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