With curly whiskers and wavy, light hair that grows three times longer than that of an ordinary lab mouse, the genetically ... relative to make a hybrid animal that would be visually ...

Enter the mouse, an animal whose genome lends itself to easy manipulation with CRISPR—a gene-editing tool developed in 2012, based on a natural process bacteria use to defend themselves in the wild.

The subsequent domestication of the house mouse is likely to have originated in China and Japan, where the first 'fancy' mouse breeds were developed. By the late 1800s, these mutants attracted the ...

Otherwise, they appear to be regular, albeit fancy and Disney ... that the development of the animal is critical for testing Colossal’s process. The woolly mouse, he said, showed that the ...