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Glowing Cats a New Tool in AIDS Research
sciencehabit writes "Scientists have developed a strain of green-glowing cat by infecting their eggs with a virus containing a foreign gene—the first time this method has worked in a carnivore. Experts say the advance could make the cat a valuable new genetic model—and potentially protect it from an HIV-like virus. "
Sex with cats will protect me from HIV? I'd hate to be a cat in Africa...
From my experience in life, my cats always liked trying to wake me up in the middle of the night. So now they'll be giving off light too? Great. Not an improvement.
Just some monochromatic green glow. Call me when the skin of the cat is a 1920x1080p display with 24bit color.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Why am I suddenly reminded of the John Ritter movie, "Skin Deep"?
the end result is that it will only be okay to have unprotected sex with people who glow?
It's fluorescing. Yes, technically that is a "glow" but glow is a lot more general term. All fluorescing items glow, but not all glowing items fluoresce. Most people that read "glow" will expect to turn out the lights and see a green cat without needing to shine an invisible special lighting on it.
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Why are those people always making those cool GM pets and never sell them ?
I want a glowing cat ! Just sell them already, I'm sure there is a market for that !
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Seriously? Green glowing cats due to virus infection in a lab?!? Talk about comic book joke sci-fi... only for real. Totally awsome! Funnier than sharks with frikkin' lazer beams.
When I was a kid I lamented the boring age I was born into. I woz wrong. Can't wait to see what the next few decades will bring. Or should we be afraid, very afraid?
(I wonder how my cat would react if he met a glowing cat in the front yard at night.)
Green Patches (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Patches), where cats on the spacecraft are born with green patches over their eyes, and it turns out to be an alien organism which has taken control of all life on the planet.
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Everyone knows a glowing puss should be avoided, aids be damned. Wouldn't it be more useful to make bugs glow instead of the creatures that eat them? Glowing mosquitos. That is all I'm asking for.
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They should consider selling these kittens. Glowing kittens would command a high price and there is definitely a market out there for unusual and cute pets. Sell these little guys and reinvest the money into more research. People already give large charitable donations, this would help encourage more people to give. "Give to a good cause and get a kick ass glowing kitten :3"
Nowhere in the article did they mention where I could obtain one of these glowing kittens.
On the other hand, I can see furries being all over this. "No, really, you'll be ok if you wear this glowing cat suit" :p
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I'd prefer dead and extinct mosquitoes, but well, we can not have everything.
Another species that will be fucked with and abused at the hands of "researchers". What they don't tell you is, at what point are they planning on dissecting these kittens?
... and we will have really scary critters jack-pawing around . . . http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com/cgi-bin/seigmiaow.pl
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From TFA:
The method's efficiency is only half the story, however. When the researchers tried to infect blood cells from the genetically modified kittens with FIV, the virus didn't replicate well. Poeschla and colleagues next plan to test whether the cats are resistant to FIV, or, if not, whether they are less likely to develop feline AIDS after infection.
"I think cats will become easier to utilize as a model organism now that you can manipulate the genome," VandeWoude says. "They're not going to replace mice, but it gives another tool to scientists."
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How is this the first carnivore they did this with? Is this old news? I read about this with a dog several months ago.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/27/us-korea-dog-idUSTRE76Q1MK20110727
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Imagine using this on violent felons before relasing them back into society.
Is your closet emitting a green glow? Call 911. Someone stalking you from the bushes, it's a lot more obvious, especially if it alse affects their little swimmers. Someone thrown into the river with the concrete overshoe treatement, easy to find the next night. Someone robs you, a discription that includes "green glow" would eliminate a lot of suspects.
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(I wonder how my cat would react if he met a glowing cat in the front yard at night.)
Depends on how it smells. Cats may be sight based for prey, but they're very scent based when dealing with each other.
Now if I can just keep them from running away from all the bass...
They're not *supposed* to do that.
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Dogs aren't really carnivores. They are more omniovres. The cat is a true carnivore.
I'll just turn off this here light and let's see if you glow or not. And seriously why is it that they are making everything glow in these tests, how about making a cat that can talk, or breathe underwater but no there must have been a heck of a sale on the genes that make stuff glow and some scientist is stuck in lab thinking what are we going to do with it all
For those of us who have had to swerve to avoid hitting a cat at night, this might help spare a few from being turned into road pizza.
Dogs are omnivores.
"If a dog won't eat it, it's not food."
Makes not to self... Never have unprotected sex with a glowing cat.
So... who gets paid to try to infect felines with HIV? It'd be hard to have sex with 'em, so did they just share needles until they figured out it'd never happen?
A little while ago we had something similar: fluorescent dogs. The interesting thing with the dogs is that you can turn the effect on and off depending on what drugs you mix into their food...
... not one of you seems to give two hoots about the cats and kittens involved in this fraudulent 'research'. I don't suppose they mind living in a cage for their entire lives, after all, ALL human beings are apparently worth more than ALL animals, even child rapists, murderers, etc.
They're ALL apparently 'better' than innocent animals who would never hurt anybody.
Any of you care to explain why?
Secondly, HIV is not the cause of AIDS. Try reading the book 'Science Sold Out'. The 'HIV is the cause of AIDS' fraud is the most recent and clearest example of the massive fraud that is going on in modern 'science', of career conmen following the grant money.
Millions of animals are tortured every year in the name of so-called 'research', but that 'research' never saves any human lives. Where is the cure for cancer? Any idea when that's going to come out? A hundred years? A million years?
"the first time this method has worked in a carnivore"? Eh? Here's a report of glowing cats from 2007: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9833107-1.html
Hard to tell what the veracity of the South Korean report is, though, and what sort of technique they used. So maybe "this method" really is new?
Here's the real reason. http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2088#comic
Experts say the advance could make the cat a valuable new genetic modelâ"and potentially protect it from an HIV-like virus. "
In other words, they are going to expose animals just like your pet to HIV and then vivisect them.
So your cats will only wake you up if you have a blinding blue night-light
You mean like the power indicator LED on a growing number of electronic devices?
The picture of the kitty looks fake. Looks more like under-lit glow lamp, rather than internal glow. (ie: how exactly are its CLAWS glowing? I think not...)
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Or should we be afraid, very afraid?
You just wait. Stealth tentacle cats are just around the corner.
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by infecting their eggs
Am I the only one puzzled by this? Never mind the glow, where did they get an egg laying cat?
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Dear scientist, please make your ass glowing so I can find it in the dark........
I suppose it's a bad idea then to make it mandatory for traffic cops. I suppose the part where they have to be naked also wouldn't go down well though.
do your research on glowing humans, leave cats alone, you should all die horribly of aids and cancer for testing on animals, if not i will gladly shoot you, just send me a card with name and adress
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