Comments on: Custom gene editing rewrites zebrafish DNA

By: Bri

Bri — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 02:10:47 +0000

A Palamino fish!

By: Ian Clarke

Ian Clarke — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:50:05 +0000

*sigh* meant as reply to Gordon.
(I’m blaming my phone!)

By: Ian Clarke

Ian Clarke — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:40:38 +0000

The original image used can be found here:
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRWeiGjvkMk2ZFVmWbY1GCEADavVDBWttIG9alhFukrz10GAduw

The two are closely related, so an easy mistake. :)

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:47:35 +0000

I clicked on after it was fixed. So what was the original fish?

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:46:34 +0000

That’s just what I was thinking of while reading the article, Bri. A few clever snips and the zebra’s stripes could become polka-dots.

But seriously, I’ve had asthma since infancy and have always envied the healthy their wind. I could never run with the other kids. Sometimes I could barely walk, sometimes it took all I had just to stand there and lean on something. To be born a healthy child would have been a life-changer.

By: Bri

Bri — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 15:02:59 +0000

Can the change it to a leopard fish? Ahhhh it’s a brave new world. Soon we will be able to imbue all sorts of traits into all sorts of animals, including us. Again, if you examine the pace of developments, things are going to change in the blink of an eye.

By: Giulio Prisco

Giulio Prisco — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:35:11 +0000

Thanks Tame!

By: Tame

Tame — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:26:11 +0000

The picture above is of the wrong species. Here is the one you want http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Zebrafish