Sabtu, Julai 30, 2011

STRANGE POOCH THAT GLOWS IN THE DARK

Glow-in-the-dark dog

The dog's paw in daylight and in the dark. Pic from www.thesun.co.uk

The dog's paw in daylight and in the dark. Pic from www.thesun.co.uk

This strange pooch must give burglars a shock - he glows in the dark.

South Korean scientists created fluorescent dog Tagon using cloning techniques that could one day help cure diseases in humans like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

The cute Beagle, now two, appears bright green under ultraviolet light when antibiotic drugs are put in his food.

He was cloned using the same cell technology used to make the world's first cloned dog, Snuppy, in 2005.

Researcher Lee Byeong-chun of Seoul National University said: "The creation of Tagon opens new horizons since the gene injected to make the dog glow can be substituted with genes that trigger fatal human diseases."

Dogs were chosen for the £1.8m project because they share 268 illnesses in common with humans, said science journal Genesis, which published the discovery.

This amazing mutt is not the first glow-in-the-dark creature though - US boffins made a fluorescent cat called Mr Green Genes three years ago.

By introducing a fluorescence protein into the kitty's DNA, mucus in the ginger tom's nose, eyes and ears made them look green.

It's a-miaow-zing what they can do in a lab these days.

13 ulasan:

  1. So these animals are cloned? Will there be no effects on them in the future?

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  2. Harap tiada kesan sampingan negatif yang menyebabkan kesengsaraan kepada haiwan-haiwan yang digunakan untuk membantu experimen seperti ini.

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  3. apapun, kena jg juga kebajikan haiwan2 tersebut.

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  4. macam2 teknologi sekarang boleh lakukan. kalau pengklonan binatang mungkin boleh lagi diterima tapi jika pengklonan ke atas manusia dilakukan saya memang tak bersetuju.

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  5. Kecanggihan sekarang ini tidak dihairankanlah apa-apa pun boleh jadi.

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  6. I totally against cloning. Enough said!

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  7. Wouldn't mind having a glow in the dark doggie.

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  8. kesian biantang2 ini. Silap2 haribulan manusia pun akan ada yang macam ini.

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  9. Hopefully there is no negative side effect on this cloned animals.

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  10. Animal aren't made for experiments. That's sad...

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  11. That explains why they glow...a successful experiment indeed.

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  12. So it means that they are abnormal? There must be side effects of doing this to them.

    BalasPadam
  13. tapi pastikan tiada kesan sampingan terhadap haiwan tersebut.

    BalasPadam