Glow in the dark cats!! I'll pay 50 dollars for one!!

[simplyputsi 0]

Ok, this would just be the best/coolest thing ever. While you are cloning them, why don't you take out those genes that jack up my allergies. I'll up my price to $100 then

You'd have the coolest cat on the block fo sho!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071212/sc_afp/healthscienceskoreacloning

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[MikeJD 0]

I'd like to know what's in it for the cat. Although it would stop me from tripping over mine in the dark, which neither of us enjoys very much.

Edited to add - oh, it only works with an ultraviolet light source. So, not so useful.

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That's Red Fluorescent Protein. It doesn't actually glow: It fluoresces in UV light.

I once cloned the gene for a similar protein, (GFP, or Green Fluorescent Protein) into the DNA of an adenovirus. If you infected cells with it, you could put the dish under a fluorescent microscope & turn on the UV & see which cells were glowing green! (Meaning they'd been successfully infected by the virus.)

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[simplyputsi 0]

That is too funny.


I'm aware they only glow in ultraviolet light. So I'll just get some black light bulbs. geesh.

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That is too funny.


I'm aware they only glow in ultraviolet light. So I'll just get some black light bulbs. geesh.

We already have cats around that glow funky in the dark.

White cat + black light = glowing cat.

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