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Taiwan Breeds Transgenic, Fluorescent Green Pigs

Posted by Zonk on from the because-your-day-wasn't-distopean-enough dept.

ScentCone writes "Transgenic pigs (and other critters) are valuable research tools because of their utility in studying human diseases. Tracking changes in some developing tissues is going to be easier, say a Taiwanese team that has introduced fluorescent, green proteins into the breeding. Said one of the researchers: '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.' Do you like green eggs and ham?"

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  1. I GOT A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. I did by flyinwhitey · · Score: 0, Troll

    I asked myself those questions.

    But then I started laughing too hard because the questions were so dumb.

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    How pathetic are you that you follow me from topic to topic and waste all your mod points at once modding me down?
  3. Pigs are filthy animals. by loteck · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't eat filthy animals.

  4. THIS MUST BE STOPPED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    THIS MUST BE STOPPED