How animal color patterns develop and evolve is a longstanding question in developmental biology. HHMI Investigator Hopi Hoekstra of Harvard University studies the development and evolution of stripe ...

Wild mice and laboratory mice differ in appearance, especially in coat colour. The wild forms usually have a brown coat, whereas albino laboratory strains have white fur and other strains have black ...

Those coats are also lighter, like the coats of mammoths, appearing more golden in color, compared to the darker hued fur of wild mice. The hope, one day, is that similar genetic modification of ...

Colossal Biosciences successfully replicates the color, texture ... prepared to withstand low temperatures than unmodified wild mice. "Although the mice have a striking golden coat, they are ...