glow in the dark
sporte | December 12, 2007This is a-mewsing.
(Photo Credit: Gyeongsang National University)
When Genetic Savings and Clone shut their doors it looked like wishful cat owners were going to be out of luck and short of kittens.
Never fear, the South Korean scientists at Gyeongsang National University have come to the rescue. I couldn't find all the details in the news articles but it appears that they inserted a gene for red fluorescent protein into a somatic cell from a cat, transplanted the cell into an egg cell, put the egg into a female cat's womb and a few weeks later, voila!, lovely white Angora cats that…
zooillogix | March 17, 2007So maybe that is a bit inaccurate but this glow in the dark mouse is real and was created to aid in cancer research. It's called a florescent nude transgenic mouse. We're embarrassed for him.
Nude transgenic mouse in normal light
Nude transgenic mouse under black light at a Phish show.
We can't make this stuff up.