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Green, Glowing Pigs Bred in Taiwan; - actual news story, no joke.
Topic Started: Jan 20 2006, 12:31 AM (386 Views)
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Possibly the best news story I have ever heard. Ever. :good:

They have a photo on the web page of the Green Glowing Pigs.

Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs

Excerpts:
  • By Chris Hogg
    BBC News, Hong Kong | Thursday, 12 January 2006

    Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that "glow in the dark".

    They claim that while other researchers have bred partly fluorescent pigs, theirs are the only pigs in the world which are green through and through.

    The pigs are transgenic, created by adding genetic material from jellyfish into a normal pig embryo.

    The scientists, from National Taiwan University's Department of Animal Science and Technology, say that although the pigs glow, they are otherwise no different from any others.

    Taiwan is not claiming a world first. Others have bred partially fluorescent pigs before; but the researchers insist the three pigs they have produced are better.

    In daylight, their eyes and skin are green-tinged

    They are the only ones that are green from the inside out. Even their heart and internal organs are green, the researchers say.

    .... In daylight, the researchers say the pigs' eyes, teeth and trotters look green. Their skin has a greenish tinge.

    The scientists will use the transgenic pigs to study human disease. Because the pig's genetic material encodes a protein that shows up as green, it is easy to spot.

    So if, for instance, some of its stem cells are injected into another animal, scientists can track how they develop without the need for a biopsy or invasive test.

    But creating them has not been easy. Many of the altered embryos failed to develop.

    The researchers say they hope the new, green pigs will mate with ordinary female pigs to create a new generation - much greater numbers of transgenic pigs for use in research.
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Not a sell-out.

Wait...don't you like Bush? (The president not the band :]P)

Isn't he against cloning??

Wouldn't you say that cloning is equivalent to abortions regarding mankind playing The Maker regardless of the reasonings behind it?

I actually do think this pig story is cool and as sad as it is to hear that many embryos failed to develop, they are doing the cloning for good reasons. But just from reading your site I thought a story like that would upset you?? I assumed you'd be against something like that
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Genetic alteration is not the same thing as cloning. Genetic alteration has been going on for years, resulting in many cross- specie mutants winding up in the food chain.
Sooner or later, the green glowing pigs will invade the world meat market resulting in green glowing pork, which will eventually be consumed by psychopathic street people in San Francisco, making their droppings easier to avoid by shoppers who are out after dark. I can't imagine anyone being unhappy about that.
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Not a sell-out.

:laugh:
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Licensed & Board-certified!

:laugh: :laugh:
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I just thought it was a funny story. Didn't mean for it to start serious debate.

As long as the pigs are treated humanely, I don't have a problem with making them green. Doesn't seem to be any harm in designing them to turn them green and glowy.

I don't know if I'm against cloning or not. Would have to give that more thought.

By and large, I'm a Bush person, but I don't agree with or approve of everything the man has said or done, whether in his private life or as president (including some political policies / decisions).

I think it might be cool to have a green, glowing pig as a pet. I'd name mine "Pork chop." ~Or, given the green color, maybe "Moldy pork chop." :laugh:
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Page has pix and video:
Me-yow! This cat has a glow — for a good cause
  • First fluorescent cat in U.S. will aid endangered species ... and humans, too

    By Michael Inbar
    TODAYShow.com contributor
    updated 10:35 a.m. CT, Thurs., Oct. 23, 2008

    For brightness, glowworms got nothing on Mr. Green Genes. And for fright factor, neither do black cats. The 6-month-old feline may look like a standard-issue orange tabby in the comfort of daylight, but he turns a ghoulish shade of fluorescent green under the shroud of darkness!

    But there’s no need to get spooked; Mr. Green Genes is not a ghastly creation out of a Halloween horror story. The glow-in-the-dark cat is the result of a genetic experiment gone right, not awry; he was cloned at the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans to aid endangered species ... and down the line, humans as well.

    The phosphorescent feline made his national television debut on TODAY Thursday. The studio went dark and Mr. Green Genes’ ears, nose and eyes glowed under an ultraviolet light.

    The green gene
    Betsy Dresser, senior vice president for the institute, explained to TODAY’s Amy Robach the process of producing a kitty that strangely glows, but is otherwise as normal as any of its brethren. “Two of our scientists at the center worked together with the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center,” Dresser said. “They introduced a gene that would then produce a protein that glowed fluorescent green.”

    While it’s certainly a neat scientific parlor trick, Dresser told TODAY the research that led to the glowing cloned Mr. Green Genes is vitally serious — both to combat animal diseases via gene therapy and, later, to increase the possibility of inserting good genes into humans while taking bad genes out.

    But to verify that the gene implants were working, scientists needed to try them out on a cat, because the animals have much of the same genetic makeup as humans. And to see if the genes actually made it into the finished, cloned cat, a gene was inserted that produces a fluorescent protein.

    “We wanted to know for sure that we could insert this gene into a cell and have it multiply,” Dresser explained. “If nothing glows, we wouldn’t know if the gene was really inserted. So, because it glows, we know we inserted the gene and were successful with that technique.”

    The nose glows
    While Mr. Green Genes pawed playfully and rolled on his back for handler Kelly Trimble, Dresser explained that all the cat’s skin cells glow with the green fluorescent protein but, because it’s a furry critter, only the eyes, ears and nose display wattage under ultraviolet. “If we were to shave him, he would glow totally,” Dresser told Robach.

    Dresser was also quick to note there is nothing cruel and unusual involved in producing a cat that glows in the dark. “It’s totally harmless,” Dresser said. “He’s just a normal cat; he doesn’t know he’s glowing.”
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