Yep, they sell flashlights now for just that purpose. People in the southwest US coexist with scorpions like the rest of the US does hornets. They are not usually deadly but are a really painful annoyance.
Posted on 12/12/2007 6:09:16 AM PST by Red Badger
South Korean scientists have cloned cats by manipulating a fluorescent protein gene, a procedure which could help develop treatments for human genetic diseases, officials said Wednesday.
In a side-effect, the cloned cats glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet beams.
A team of scientists led by Kong Il-keun, a cloning expert at Gyeongsang National University, produced three cats possessing altered fluorescence protein (RFP) genes, the Ministry of Science and Technology said.
"It marked the first time in the world that cats with RFP genes have been cloned," the ministry said in a statement.
"The ability to produce cloned cats with the manipulated genes is significant as it could be used for developing treatments for genetic diseases and for reproducing model (cloned) animals suffering from the same diseases as humans," it added.
The cats were born in January and February. One was stillborn while two others grew to become adult Turkish Angoras, weighing 3.0 kilogrammes (6.6 pounds) and 3.5 kilogrammes.
"This technology can be applied to clone animals suffering from the same diseases as humans," the leading scientist, Kong, told AFP.
"It will also help develop stemcell treatments," he said, noting that cats have some 250 kinds of genetic diseases that affect humans, too.
The technology can also help clone endangered animals like tigers, leopards and wildcats, Kong said.
South Korea's bio-engineering industry suffered a setback after a much-touted achievement by cloning expert Hwang Woo-Suk turned out to have been faked.
The government banned Hwang from research using human eggs after his claims that he created the first human stem cells through cloning were ruled last year to be bogus.
Hwang is standing trial on charges of fraud and embezzlement.
LOL!
I seem to recall that scorpions in the home are somewhat of an annoying problem in SW areas of the U.S.
Do people there put black light nightlights in their homes so the little creatures are illuminated?
I’d hate to get up in the middle of the night and step on one of those things while going to the bathroom if I lived in that part of the country...
Chemicals that fluoresce (glow under UV) can protect from UV radiation by absorbing the energy and emitting it as harmless visible light.
Yep, they sell flashlights now for just that purpose. People in the southwest US coexist with scorpions like the rest of the US does hornets. They are not usually deadly but are a really painful annoyance.
Hornets don't climb into bed with you!!!!
It makes it easier to find it in the dark?
Hornets don't climb into bed with you!!!!
Who says???................
Men will forever be working on inventions that make it easier to find some...(kittens).
“Scorpions also can take high levels of nuclear radiation.”
Maybe, but remove their stinger and they are defense less.
Yakety Yak.
Pat, my friend sitting next to me, said that was a personal foul!!! :)
Was it? I didn’t think it crossed over the line until I offered to introduce you.
Would you like to meet her?
So Kind and thoughtful!! Sorry, I'm still trying to untangle from my last mistake.... and already have my next mistake lined up.... Will we ever learn???
Not as long as we hear the hormones...
Not going to say ANYTHING about target aquisition.
It makes it easier to find it in the dark?
Get thee behind me temptation! Not gonna say it! Wouldn't be prudent! LOL!
The Viking Kitties would hunt you down like a dog!............
My uncle got stung in the foot by a scorpion that was hiding in one of his slippers. He said it was incredibly painful.
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