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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.
No, I do know what I'm talking about.
This is akin to the inexperienced or unfamiliar system administrator making a minute change he thinks will do one thing, but due to extenuating circumstances unbeknown to him, have broad implications. Except an order of magnitude more complex, with much more drastic possible implications.
No, we can't really find these things out until we experiment some more, but we really do need to find out a) a good picture of what exactly the jelly fish's genome is, and how and what other genes in that jellyfish interact with the 'glow' gene, and b) a complete understanding of the modified organism. We have neither. We're like the inexperienced user who's installing christmas light programs on the desktop, unaware of the bundled spyware, or possible DLL conflicts.
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
I've always read that cat blood glows in the dark
You may be thinking of cat feces.
To detect the glow you need to get a well filled litter box in a completely dark room and put your face right next to the material.
The word 'color' is derogatory to African-Americans, Bubba.