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Bioluminescent Puppy
Topic Started: May 8 2009, 11:49 AM (814 Views)
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http://www.examiner.com/x-2111-Tacoma-Dogs-Examiner~y2009m4d28-Weird-newsglowing-puppy-created

In South Korea, scientists have created a genetically-modified dog that glows in the dark. This is truly neat. But this is a clone with genes added rather than fusing eggs and sperm first and then inserting the genes into the zygote cell. But other than that, this is still pretty neat!
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Weird. I've seen other glowing mammals, but they were always glires. First glowing laurasithere I presume?
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Fascinating. The South Koreans are doing really well with biotechnology.
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Have there been any adverse side-effects(e.g. infertlity) upon the beagles?
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No health problems have been detected as of yet. Hopefully the puppy will remain healthy throught its life.
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Heh, well in that case, have they given a timeline at which they are going to be made publicly available?
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Not that I know of. This puppy is merely experimental at the moment. But it would be cool to have a glowing dog as a pet.
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I don't think it actually glows. Isn't it one that only does that under UV light?
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Why don't they maake something useful with GE, not just glowing thing?
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Because this is an experiment, they are not just dicking about you know.
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Well, they should try to make something useful for an experiment, not just caat enrichment.
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You don't use test tubes as shot glasses.
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But making glowing animals is useful. Never again will we have to get up to turn on the lamp when we want to read!
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