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.

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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.

In neighboring South Korea, disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk apologized on Thursday for wrongdoing at his laboratory, but hinted at a conspiracy to discredit him and said he was blinded by the zeal of advancing stem cell studies.

An investigation panel at Seoul National University said on Tuesday that a team led by Hwang faked two landmark papers on embryonic stem cells, but did produce the world’s first cloned dog.

Sweet! I need to get them to do that to my cat! :D

need to inject them there iraqis with that so we can see em easier in the sand

goddamn ricer pigs

whoa!!! neon lights!! does it glow in the dark?

I wonder if one could get glowing bacon from these things...

We use GFP all the time as a marker for gene expression. It's a jellyfish protein that glows green under UV light. :)

Here's GFP in a tobacco epidermal cell at ~60x magnification


Glowing bacon should be no problem with the right light. :roll:

When my father was in the Air Force, he told me that they made black men carry around flashlights at night.

With their dark uniforms it's hard to see anything besides a set of eyes and some pearly whites floating around in the night.

Would NAACP be angry if we start tagging and making African natives glow in the for safety reasons?

Would NAACP be angry if we start tagging and making African natives glow in the for safety reasons?

They might not be so thrilled to be getting zapped by high intensity UV. ;)