I saw that story this morning too. Here's the pigs in the dark:
But the article I read didn't say how the glowing pigs would help with stem cell research. Maybe when they do a stem cell transplant into the pigs, the areas it affects won't glow?
It's always nice to see government sponsored scientists doing something truly useful with their time. Glow in the dark porcine objects... what an advancement!!
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The MSNBC article didn't explain how it was going to advance stem cell research, but does in the first paragraph say it was done in the hopes of boosting the research...
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.
