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Post by phrost on Jan 14, 2006 0:03:08 GMT -5
Genetically modified Green Pig! What on earth are these people thinking? They already created glow in the dark fish but a fluorescent pig too?! (See pic of pig on the link) www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10818583/from/RSSUpdated: 8:04 a.m. ET Jan. 12, 2006 TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan, home to the world’s first transgenic glowing fish, has successfully bred fluorescent green pigs that researchers hope will boost the island’s stem cell research, a professor said on Thursday. By injecting fluorescent green protein into embryonic pigs, a research team at the island’s leading National Taiwan University managed to breed three male transgenic pigs, said professor Wu Shinn-Chih of the university’s Institute and Department of Animal Science and Technology. “There are partially fluorescent green pigs elsewhere, but ours are the only ones in the world that are green from inside out. Even their hearts and internal organs are green,” Wu said on Thursday. Story continues below ↓ advertisement The transgenic pigs, commonly used to study human diseases, would help researchers monitor and trace changes of the tissues during the physical development, Wu said. In 2003, a Taiwan company began selling the world’s first genetically engineered fish, sparking protests by environmentalists who said the fluorescent green fish posed a threat to the earth’s ecosystem.
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Post by dukeofpain on Jan 14, 2006 2:31:04 GMT -5
Hmmm. Didn't some guy from south korea just get busted for a hoax "stem cell research" Project?
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Post by phrost on Jan 14, 2006 17:44:58 GMT -5
Yep you bet. It was somewhere in Korea, I forget where specifically. The guy who pulled that hoax got fired or something. This article is from Taiwan.
The glow in the dark fishes has already been shown on television last year. I believe the glow in the dark fish was first sold in California but was later banned because of enviromental concerns.
Hey we already have gentically modified vegetibles. Why not pets too???
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Post by nymos on Jan 16, 2006 14:35:34 GMT -5
That can't be kosher.
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