Chinese Scientists have done it again! A group of researchers at the South China Agricultural University have found a way to use jellyfish DNA to create not one, not two, but ten tiny glow-in-the-dark piglets using a method developed by the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Medicine.
These glowing pigs were created by inserting fluorescent protein from jellyfish DNA to pig embryos, and as you can see in the video, they glow very bright under black fluorescent lights. Even though it’s fascinating, this is not the first time we see green-glowing animals. Just recently a group of researchers in Turkey managed to develop a way to create glow-in-the-dark rabbits as well.
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Despite how it may seem, this research is actually helping these scientists to confirm that the fluorescent genetic material injected into the pig embryos has been incorporated into the animal’s natural make-up. “It’s just a marker to show that we can take a gene that was not originally present in the animal and now exists in it,” said Dr. Stefan Moisyadi, a veteran bioscientist with the IBR (Institute for Biogenesis Research).
Check out the video to see the cute glowing piglets.
[Via: Daily Mail / Vimeo]
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