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Using CRISPR to Replace Jumping Legs with Walking Legs (IMAGE)

This is a scanning electron microscope images of a normal amphipod (top), about one millimeter long, with color-coded hind jumping legs, and an amphipod that has been genetically modified with CRISPR ...
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Using CRISPR to Replace Swimming Legs with Jumping Legs (IMAGE)

This is a scanning electron microscope image of a mutant amphipod, with false colors (in red) showing two hind jumping legs that replaced swimming-appendages after CRISPR genome editing. Using CRISPR ...