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Glowing Chinese Pig Passes Traits to Young
porkpickle writes A cloned pig whose genes were altered to make it glow fluorescent green has passed on the trait to its young, a development that could lead to the future breeding of pigs for human transplant organs, a Chinese university reported."
When "glow green" genes are spliced into an organism, that's usually a gene for the expression of "Green Fluorescent Protein," a protein native to Aequorea jellyfish. Green Fluorescent Protein, as the name implies, is "fluorescent," not bioluminescent or phosphorescent. The excitation and subsequent emission of fluorescence occurs on a very fast timescale (as opposed to phosphorescence, where you can "charge" a material with light, then take it to a dark place, where it will emit light gradually). Therefore, you need to shine a light on fluorescence materials to make them glow- shining a light in the blue or near UV (black light) wavelengths on one of these pigs will cause them to absorb that light, and in turn emit light which is green in color.
"FDA staff reviewers expressed concern about the number of patients who were left out of the study because they died."
Mount a blacklight uv lamp above a urinal; Urine already tends to glow! (In fact, phosphorous was first refined out of urine by alchemists. Very impressed by the glowing, they were, thought they'd found something magical. Suppose they had, in a way. )
I cant help but wonder what goes through the mind of the pig when it sees it glows green, I mean I know they're not exactly rocket scientists but from what I remember pigs are fairly clever, I wonder if this causes them all sorts of mental distress... Are there any people here that know anything about animal behaviour that might know?
If it does cause the pig severe stress that would be terrible... we dont want it spoiling the meat.
So Skulldilocks threw acid on the schoolchildrens' faces, cause somebody from the bible told her to do it!