Fluorescent Green Pig Gives Birth to Glowing Piglets
Sunday, January 13, 2008
A fluorescent green pig gives birth to equally glowing piglets. It passed on it's engineered trait to it young, so to speak. The mother pig was cloned pig whose genes were altered to make it glow fluorescent green.
Link"Continued development of this technology can be applied to ... the production of special pigs for the production of human organs for transplant," Liu said in a news release posted Tuesday on the university’s Web site.
The piglets’ mother was one of three pigs born with the trait in December 2006 after pig embryos were injected with fluorescent green protein. Two of the 11 piglets glow fluorescent green from their snout, trotters, and tongue under ultraviolet light, the university said.
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