Scientists have mapped the genetic composition of a marsupial mammal, the South American gray, short-tailed opossum, gaining insight into the role of "junk DNA" in human evolution and into immune ...
Humans aren't the only creatures that prefer to use one hand over the other. Now, a new study finds that marsupials that run about on all fours have paw preferences, too. In particular, sugar gliders ...
Gray short-tailed opossums are used in a wide variety of research in the areas of developmental biology, oncology, immunology, and comparative biology. Despite many frequent experimental manipulations ...
In world’s first genetically engineered marsupials, scientists get a fresh window into human biology
When the pile of opossums arrived at John VandeBerg’s lab from the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in 1978, the geneticist had an ambitious plan for the soft-eyed, hamster-sized animals. He wanted to ...
Genome editing has been used to alter the genomes of species from plants to humans. Now, a group of researchers from the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) have added a new animal to ...
This week researchers unveiled the genomic sequence of the gray short-tailed opossum, Monodelphis domestica . If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by ...
Their complex reproduction has made it hard for scientists to apply the gene-editing tool—until now. Mice: check. Lizards: check. Squid: check. Marsupials … check. CRISPR has been used to modify the ...
Just to be clear, female opossums do not give birth by sneezing babies into their pouch from their nostrils, as was once widely believed. If anything, it’s more bizarre than that. Ah, the poor ...
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