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Old 2006-01-13, 05:07   Link #45
Kamui4356
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Scientists make fluorecent green pigs!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/01/12...eut/index.html
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (Reuters) -- Taiwan, home to the world's first transgenic glowing fish, has successfully bred fluorescent green pigs that researchers hope will boost the island's stem cell research, a professor said.

By injecting fluorescent green protein into embryonic pigs, a research team at the island's leading National Taiwan University managed to breed three male transgenic pigs, said professor Wu Shinn-Chih of the university's Institute and Department of Animal Science and Technology.

"There are partially fluorescent green pigs elsewhere, but ours are the only ones in the world that are green from inside out. Even their hearts and internal organs are green," Wu said on Thursday.
Professor Wu later reported experiments to engineer a flying pig have met with somewhat less success.
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