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Cool Scientists Create Glowing Mice
mrbrown1602 writes "MSNBC is reporting that San Diego-based Anticancer, Inc. has sucessfully implanted the genes of a jellyfish in the hair follicles of mice, creating glowing mice... more here" Glowing elephants would be a cooler trick.
Vivisection is wrong
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
But when will they stop testing and go for real markets? Kid with blue glowing hair, only 10000$ extra.
You call fiddling about with some small creature's life "a cool thing"? IMHO this is just plain sick.
Glowing elephants would be a cooler trick.
Yup, it would - but unfortunately the elephant has a much longer gestation period -- nearly two years! That'd make for very slow generations in the lab, don't you think?
With spider web protien for hair.
Beats goats with spider web protien for milk..ug.
Added bonus: you have to shear sheep anyway, except now your sweater is potentially bulletproof.
If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
"Hows the cure for cancer coming along Smithers?"
"Well, I made these mice that glow in the dark...."
"Pah, we've had those in the reactor for three years, you're fired!"
~~~~~ BigLig2? You mean there's another one of me?
I want a glowing wang. It would be like a light saber in the dark. And playing hide the light saber might be more fun if it glows on it's own.
WTF has this got to do with curing cansor.
On a side note. Does any one remember thoes old Redybreck adverts with the glowing children. Now we can make that a reality.
Wouldn't it be nice if schools got all the money they wanted and the army had to hold jumble sales for guns
This is definatly going to be the next big thing at raves.
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A french lab has alread made 'glow-in-the-dark' rabbits (so the ovaries glow, which are used for research purposes). This is done by splicing the protein that causes a jellyfish to glow into a rabbit zygote.
I can't see how glowing hair is going to be useful. anyhow, have a look at this, which covers a bit about it (the article is about an artist trying to get one of the glowing rabbits for an exhibition)
After all, according to "The Truth" ads, you can make glowing mice simply by making them smoke cigarettes. And with a name like "The Truth", it must be true, right? :)
"Save the whales, feed the hungry, free the mallocs" -- author unknown
There are practical problems about going near an animal that weighs tonnes and never forgets with sharp pointy instruments, but that's another question, and easily answered one at that.
-WolfWithoutAClause
"Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"Its about time to stop the bigmoney and their toys. They'll do anything to sell the world
and not keep anything left to live.
Thanx! Barry
Nagasaki.
Depleted uranium bullets.
LSD on soldiers.
There are so many examples it's staggering.
Common thread? Govt. Agencies.
Not to sound like the XFiles but you're probably more likely to be killed by the government you voted for than somebody elses. [wild speculation, of course!]
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Scientists have been doing this for years.
Cansor? I never heard of cansor! A new epidemic?!! AUGH! RUN FOR THE HILLS!
Mice whose fur glows green may be the first step to using gene therapy to treat hair loss, baldness and perhaps even to permanently change hair color, researchers say.
As long as the hair color you want is glowing green, of course.
Win dain a lotica, en vai tu ri silota
That explains the glowing hot pink elephants I saw walking home from the bar last night. I thought it was time to stop drinking.
Thanks, science! This would make my old cat's job a little bit easier... no more night-vision kitty goggles required ...
--matt
as usual
1. America is not the world
I was contending that I am more likely to get killed by my own government's medical experiments or "health programmes" than I am being killed by a foreign government agency.
You notice that I didn't say "Americans are more likely to get killed by American government officials than being run over and killed in the street."
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There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Don't get too excited folks. At the levels GFP (Green Fluorescent Protein) can be expressed in the tissues of non-indogenous organisms (that is, non-jellyfish organisms), and at the efficiency it works fluorescently in those organisms, GFP only glows green under Ultra-Violet light.
In other words, if you just turn off the light, these mice aren't going to be growing. The authors of the article could have at least done a little bit of research, and thus been able to say "under UV light" rather than "under a certain kind of light".
Also note that this is nothing new. GFP has been put into tobacco plants, which subsequently allows their vascular structure to be easily determined under UV light (actaully, the tobacco plant had luciferase, an enzyme expressed in lightning bugs which allows them to glow). It is also used in every biology lab for studying organisms. You fuse GFP with your favorite protein, then you can track your favorite protein in cells via a UV microscrope.
Less known is that there other fluorescent proteins aside from GFP. As mentioned before, there is also luciferase. There's also Yellow Fluorescent Proein (YFP), enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (EYFP), and Red Fluorescent Protein (RFP), among others. This is very useful for biologists because it allows us to track different proteins in a cell at the same time, by creating fusion proteins.
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