Scientists put a giraffe gene into mice! Here's what happened. #Shorts
Channel: YouTooBio
Date: 2021-05-25

Scientists used CRISPR to put giraffe-specific mutations into a mouse gene... And what happened probably isn't what you expect. But it helped us learn about some of the adaptations that let giraffes have such spectacularly long necks! 

The cool paper referenced in this video is: 
C. Liu, et al., A towering genome: Experimentally validated adaptations to high blood pressure and extreme stature in the giraffe. Science Advances 7, eabe9459 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe9459 

Video of giraffe eating leaves by Lennart Hessel CC BY 3.0 
Photo of giraffe by Axel Tschentscher CC BY-SA 4.0 

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