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Scientists genetically alter squids for the first time in ‘game-changing’ breakthrough – USA TODAY
The milestone could pave the way for researchers to study squid, octopus and cuttlefish the way they do common lab animals like mice and fruit flies.

A team of researchers genetically altered a squid for the first time ever, an important step in the study of cephalopods.
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A team of researchers have genetically altered a squid for the first time in history, an important step in the study of cephalopods.
Researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory used CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing to eliminate a gene in embryos of the squid Doryteuthis pealeii, which removed the pigment from their eye and skin cells, according to Joshua Rosenthal,…
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