Science copies how squid change color

January 23, 2012 | Source: BBC News

Squid (credit: Wikipedia)

The gene that gives squids the ability to change color and camouflage themselves has attracted the attention of geneticists at Cambridge University working in the new science of synthetic biology. They have used standardized DNA sequences known as Bio-Bricks to recreate the gene so that future biologically engineered organisms could be given the same ability to change color.