Scientists put a giraffe gene into mice! Here's what happened.
Ғылым және технология
Scientists used CRISPR to put giraffe-specific mutations into a mouse gene... And what happened probably isn't what you expect. But it helped us learn about some of the adaptations that let giraffes have such spectacularly long necks!
The cool paper referenced in this video is:
C. Liu, et al., A towering genome: Experimentally validated adaptations to high blood pressure and extreme stature in the giraffe. Science Advances 7, eabe9459 (2021). doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe9459
Video of giraffe eating leaves by Lennart Hessel CC BY 3.0
Photo of giraffe by Axel Tschentscher CC BY-SA 4.0
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Very cool. I was guessing longer neck. The BP effect is super cool and could lead to new ways to control BP in humans??? Thanks for sharing. Do you have a video fo CRISPR?
@YouTooBio
3 жыл бұрын
Not sure we could control BP in humans with this because genetically modifying all of the cardiovascular cells necessary to have the impact would be challenging (impossible) given current tools. I don't have a video for CRISPR... yet :)
@Freedomofchoice123
Жыл бұрын
@@YouTooBio Perhaps we could do Germ line editing for this gene in humans?