Tweaking species isn’t new...

... Humans have been selectively breeding animals for thousands of years.

GloFish — fish genetically modified with the GFP protein — are already sold in pet stores across the US.

• Yorktown Technologies, which developed the fish, sold the company for $50m in 2017.


• But some of the fish have escaped from farms in Brazil and

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Glowing bunnies and real-life unicorns: Biohacking is coming for our pets

While little kids are simply daydreaming of having a pet unicorn, one startup is actually putting in the legwork to make it a reality.

The Los Angeles Project is using Crispr gene-editing technology to make our pets a little more interesting — we’re talking glow-in-the-dark... See more