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Friday, January 10, 2014

Fluorescent Mutant Pigs Born in China

Fluorescent Mutant Pigs Born in China
Posted: 10 Jan 2014 01:45 AM PST
In Guangdong Province in Southern China, ten transgenic piglets have been born this year, in and under a black light, they glow a greenish tint. A technique developed by reproductive scientists from the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa’s John A. Burns School of Medicine was used to quadruple the success rate at which plasmids carrying a fluorescent protein from jellyfish DNA were transferred into the embryo of the pig

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