Using CRISPR to Replace Jumping Legs with Walking Legs (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Using CRISPR to Replace Jumping Legs with Walking Legs

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This is a scanning electron microscope images of a normal amphipod (top), about one millimeter long, with color-coded hind jumping legs, and an amphipod that has been genetically modified with CRISPR to grow forward-walking legs instead (bottom).

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Arnaud Martin/UC Berkeley

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