It turned out that bobtail squid have a second gene that also affects pigment. "When we targeted that gene, lo and behold we were able to get albinos," Albertin says.

NASA Is Blasting Water Bears, Bobtail Squid Into Space For Scientific Research The animals are being launched into the cosmos as NASA researchers attempt to learn more about how the conditions of ...

It’s not only astronauts that get to go to space. On NASA’s next cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS), water bears and glow-in-the-dark bobtail squid will be heading there, too.

Bobtail squid and tardigrades, also known as water bears, will be traveling to the orbital outpost to help researchers answer some key questions about spaceflight. Their ride: a shiny new Falcon 9 ...

The International Space Station, bustling with more astronauts than it has been in decades, will also now be a home for a bunch of glow-in-the dark squid and water bears. SpaceX on Thursday launche… ...

Mandel made the discovery by looking for differences between the genomes of two V.fischeri strains – MJ11 from the pinecone fish , and ES114 from the squid.MJ11 can’t colonise squids, so ...