Taiwan Scientists Breed Green-glowing Pigs.

Posted by yayo in Animal, Science & Tech on January 7, 2007 at 1:44 am


Fluorescent green glowing pigs

From the website:

The pigs are transgenic, created by adding genetic material from jellyfish into a normal pig embryo. [...]

Taiwan is not claiming a world first. Others have bred partially fluorescent pigs before; but the researchers insist the three pigs they have produced are better. [...]

In daylight, the researchers say the pigs’ eyes, teeth and trotters look green. Their skin has a greenish tinge.

In the dark, shine a blue light on them and they glow torch-light bright.

The scientists will use the transgenic pigs to study human disease. Because the pig’s genetic material encodes a protein that shows up as green, it is easy to spot.

Link – via Tom Smith’s The Other Blog


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5 comments to "Taiwan Scientists Breed Green-glowing Pigs."

  1. beajerry
    January 7th, 2007 at 5:29 am

    I seem to remember reading about green/glow-in-the-dark stuff a few years ago and how it would soon be all-the-rage among young body-modifiers.

  2. yayo
    January 7th, 2007 at 5:42 am

    Yup, mice and other pigs were lighting in the dark ^^

  3. ted
    January 7th, 2007 at 11:51 pm

    I'm waiting until they light up on their own to buy my first pig.

  4. intelnm
    April 16th, 2007 at 1:37 pm

    Dr Seuss would be proud.. the first thing i thought was green eggs and ham when i saw this.

  5. Layla
    January 12th, 2008 at 6:21 pm

    WEIRDDD


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