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Cloned, Glow in the Dark Cats
eldavojohn writes "Well, you can finally get genetically modified cloned animals. South Korean scientists have shown it is possible to alter a protein via therapeutic cloning to 'artificially [create] animals with human illnesses linked to genetic causes.' The images of these animals are amazing. This research was headed by Kong Il-keun, the first person in the country to clone cats in 2004." There is always the chance that this is a hoax, but far too amusing to ignore.
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Now they have food-lit dinner instead of candle lit dinner?
Yes, they run a little-known custom Ubuntu release...Fluorescent Feline.
Momentarily, the need for the construction of new light will no longer exist.
*turns off headlights*
Now maybe I won't trip over them as I stumble around in the dark, on my way to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
And if we plug one into a light socket, will it glow brighter? Can I use one as a night light?
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I'm waiting for the version that's part cat, part rabbit, and part spacecraft.
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Glow in the dark cats would make great night lights. Like having luminous fish.
My cat is already horrible at catching mice. I can't imagine she would catch any if she glows.
...come to think of it can you make the mice glow instead??!!!
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I've always read that cat blood glows in the dark, something I've always wanted to see. And even though I have two wild and rambunctious cats, I've never seen fresh blood besides that crusty stuff in their ears from excessive scratching. Cats must be incredibly resilient not even considering their ability to fall from great heights.
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I'll take one for the wife please. Can you make it pink? She really likes pink. And one that doesn't shed, get rid of the shedding gene. And how about one that doesn't need food, doesn't poop, doesn't spray, no claws and not moody. Hmm, I just described a stuffed cat. I'll take a stuffed cat please.
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If we put it in a box and dont look...will it still glow?
This is astoundingly disturbing and irresponsible. I can't get over it, especially in light of where this took place: Asia.
It's already profoundly simple for diseases to jump from one species to another, with either one species being a host carrier or an ill, infected carrier, and it's all the more common to happen with species which are:
a) genetically and physiologically similar, ie. from pigs to humans, or from primates to humans (monkeypox)
b) creatures which have regular contact, i.e. from cats to humans, deer to humans (chronic wasting disease), cattle to humans (mad cow), etc.
And, specifically, a combination of the two: something like AIDS/HIV.
Combining a species which has close, daily proximity with both humans and other cats, and which has the propensity to have large, expansive populations seems downright foolish. A parasite or virus from normal cats manages to get into the cloned cat (where it wouldn't infect the human, normally), mutates to the newer genes, and then migrates to the researchers. Voila, instant new disease (with potentially horrid results).
(on a side note: anyone with kids who have been scared by cat eyes in a dark corner (my 3-year-old son would not go past the 'spare room' which is the cat's room for weeks after he saw the cat's eyes reflecting the hallway light) realize the potential for these cats as useful babysitters: kids, leave your room and the demoncat will get you!)
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At least these ones will be less likely to get run over by cars at night!
Unless the drivers are cat-haters...
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Does that mean I can finally get a goldfish night light?
But do they glow in the dark after they blend?
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So this Ubuntu Frisky Fucker I downloaded from some .ru site may not be legit?
Yeah, but does it run Linux?
Man...you don't see many dogs or cats in many Korean or Vietnamese neighborhoods as it is....but, now that they glow in the dark???
Those poor little critters really don't stand a chance.....
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Yes, but I couldn't resist the chance to combine the two. OMG! PONIES! Florescent pink, genetically modified pony clones!!!11!!!
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I get it! Okay how's this..
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Imagine a beowulf cluster of those things
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