These Albino Lizards Are The First Gene-Edited Reptiles

An albino lizard hatchling, one of the first to be gene edited with CRISPR. (Doug Menke) Skittering among the Caribbean flora are anole lizards, tiny reptiles no bigger than a finger's length. Sporting shades of grey, brown and green, island life has spurred the evolution of some 150 species there. As a result, anole lizards have become a key scientific model for research into how reptiles develop and evolve. But scientists have been missing a critical element: the tools to investigate t