Animal biotechnology articles from across Nature Portfolio

UFObow is a single-wavelength excitable Brainbow technique, incorporating three newly developed blue-excitable fluorescent proteins. This method facilitates mapping of immune cells’ spatial distribution at a single-cell resolution.

An article in Matter uses rice grains as scaffolds for cultivated beef cells to produce an innovative beef-infused rice.

The production of conventional meat contributes to climate change and uses up around 70% of available arable land. Cultured meat is emerging as a potential solution, but presently can be only produced at the pilot scale. Biofabrication technologies developed for biomedical applications could be leveraged to introduce automation and standardization in the production of cultured meat, accelerating its path to market.

Lin et al. explore the impact of evolutionary divergence on de-extinction efforts that use genome editing using the extinct Christmas Island rat.