Posted on 12/27/2013 2:01:40 PM PST by Red Badger
Scientists in China created 10 piglets that glow green under black fluorescent lights, using a technique developed by the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Medicine.
A group of scientists from South China Agricultural University were able to do this by injecting fluorescent protein from jellyfish DNA into pig embryos, thus creating the green-glowing pigs.
This same technique was used to create the worlds first glow-in-the-dark bunnies in Turkey earlier this year, where they are currently working to produce similar results with fluorescent-glowing sheep.
Scientists, however, are not creating glowing farm animals for seasonal décor. The goal of the research is to have an efficient and cheap way of getting a beneficial gene into humans that could help treat many genetic disorders.
Dr. Stefan Moisyadi, a UH Manoa bioscientist with the Institute for Biological Research, says, for example, that this technique could benefit people who suffer with the rare blood-clotting disease hemophilia. We can make [blood-clotting] enzymes a lot cheaper in animals rather than a factory that will cost millions of dollars to build, Moisyadi said in a press release.
I would have them at the park,
I would have them in the dark.
Now we have bacon that glows in the dark.
Who didn't see this coming?
Now we have bacon that glows in the dark.
Who didn't see this coming?
This is certainly cheaper than buying a good night vision scope.
When pigs fly ... we’ll have 15 lb. pork hot wings!
I will not in a train,
I will not in the rain,
I do not like green eggs and ham
I will not eat them Sam-I-Am
now we need glow in the dark moolies!
I don’t see why not.
in fact it would likely be feasible to make Porcine Like Drones...programmed for the task...capable of producing a variety of piercing SQUEALS based on data collected at a given location. This would allow the Flying Pigs to appear to be responding to stimuli such as the horrified SCREAMS of the Jihadist Scum over which they’re Flying...
Glow in the dark bacon. What will they think of next?
Do same to the two legged pigs called politicians. Will help us see them coming.
I’ll pass on the glow in the dark bacon.
Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
we won’t need drones.. just pigs flying around. it should keep the terrorists at bay :)
They ought to be a big hit in the muslim world..................
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