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Last Updated: Thursday, 12 January 2006, 11:04 GMT
Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs
By Chris Hogg
BBC News, Hong Kong
Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that "glow
in the dark".
They claim that while other researchers have bred partly
fluorescent pigs, theirs are the only pigs in the world which are green
through and through.
The pigs are transgenic, created by adding genetic material
from jellyfish into a normal pig embryo.
The researchers hope the pigs will boost the island's stem
cell research, as well as helping with the study of human disease.
The scientists, from National Taiwan University's Department
of Animal Science and Technology, say that although the pigs glow, they
are otherwise no different from any others.
Taiwan is not claiming a world first. Others have bred
partially fluorescent pigs before; but the researchers insist the three
pigs they have produced are better.
They are the only ones that are green from the inside out.
Even their heart and internal organs are green, the researchers say.
To create them, DNA from jellyfish was added to about 265 pig
embryos which were implanted in eight different sows.
Four of the female pigs became pregnant and three male piglets
were born three months ago.
Green generation
In daylight, the researchers say the pigs' eyes, teeth and
trotters look green. Their skin has a greenish tinge.
In the dark, shine a blue light on them and they glow
torch-light bright.
The scientists will use the transgenic pigs to study human
disease. Because the pig's genetic material is green, it is easy to spot.
So if, for instance, some of its stem cells are injected into
another animal, scientists can track how they develop without the need for
a biopsy or invasive test.
But creating them has not been easy. Many of the altered
embryos failed to develop.
The researchers say they hope the new, green pigs will mate
with ordinary female pigs to create a new generation - much greater
numbers of transgenic pigs for use in research.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4605202.stm
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| User: "Woodswun" |
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| Title: Re: Taiwan Breeds Green-Glowing Pigs |
13 Jan 2006 05:14:35 PM |
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Doc wrote:
Last Updated: Thursday, 12 January 2006, 11:04 GMT
Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs
By Chris Hogg
BBC News, Hong Kong
Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that "glow
in the dark".
Let us know when they breed pigs that fly. Glowing ones don't count.
^_^
Woods
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| User: "Werewolfy" |
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| Title: Re: Taiwan Breeds Green-Glowing Pigs |
13 Jan 2006 06:45:32 PM |
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"Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs
By Chris Hogg"
Is that coincidence....the writer's name I mean? If it is simply
coincidence then fine, but it does tend to make one disbelieve a
strange story!
Werewolfy
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| User: "Doc" |
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| Title: Re: Taiwan Breeds Green-Glowing Pigs |
13 Jan 2006 09:24:42 PM |
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"Werewolfy" <thegrimreaper10@lycos.com> wrote in message
news:1137199532.585488.269230@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
"Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs
By Chris Hogg"
Is that coincidence....the writer's name I mean? If it is simply
coincidence then fine, but it does tend to make one disbelieve a
strange story!
Werewolfy
If they'd been another color, uh, let's say, magenta, it'd give the story
more credence. But...GREEN? No way.
Doc :))
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| User: "Marvin The Paranoid Android" |
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| Title: Re: Taiwan Breeds Green-Glowing Pigs |
13 Jan 2006 07:03:27 PM |
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Werewolfy wrote:
"Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs
By Chris Hogg"
Is that coincidence....the writer's name I mean? If it is simply
coincidence then fine, but it does tend to make one disbelieve a
strange story!
Werewolfy
Actually it wasn't Taiwan.
It was Hogg Kong.
--
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
-Carl Jung
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Taiwan Breeds Green-Glowing Pigs |
13 Jan 2006 08:37:53 PM |
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So consider Boss Hogg in a colour of his choice!
You will know it is a success when P Hilton adds a shade.
Comes in colours everywhere like a rainbow
LB
It is better to have lived one day as a tiger than a thousand years as
a sheep
- Tibetan saying
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| User: "Doc" |
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| Title: Re: Taiwan Breeds Green-Glowing Pigs |
13 Jan 2006 09:22:28 PM |
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<leigh8bee@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:1137206273.826170.4500@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
So consider Boss Hogg in a colour of his choice!
You will know it is a success when P Hilton adds a shade.
Comes in colours everywhere like a rainbow
LB
LOL! Pamela Anderson could contribute to the various shades, too.
It is better to have lived one day as a tiger than a thousand years as
a sheep
- Tibetan saying
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| User: "Aidan" |
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| Title: Re: Taiwan Breeds Green-Glowing Pigs |
13 Jan 2006 09:57:24 PM |
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Mmmm, green eggs and ham *gurgle*
"Doc" <bushelsofbushrot@HellsHereNow.com> wrote in message
news:dq944l01sj2@enews2.newsguy.com...
Last Updated: Thursday, 12 January 2006, 11:04 GMT
Taiwan breeds green-glowing pigs
By Chris Hogg
BBC News, Hong Kong
Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that "glow
in the dark".
They claim that while other researchers have bred partly
fluorescent pigs, theirs are the only pigs in the world which are green
through and through.
The pigs are transgenic, created by adding genetic material
from jellyfish into a normal pig embryo.
The researchers hope the pigs will boost the island's stem
cell research, as well as helping with the study of human disease.
The scientists, from National Taiwan University's Department
of Animal Science and Technology, say that although the pigs glow, they
are otherwise no different from any others.
Taiwan is not claiming a world first. Others have bred
partially fluorescent pigs before; but the researchers insist the three
pigs they have produced are better.
They are the only ones that are green from the inside out.
Even their heart and internal organs are green, the researchers say.
To create them, DNA from jellyfish was added to about 265 pig
embryos which were implanted in eight different sows.
Four of the female pigs became pregnant and three male piglets
were born three months ago.
Green generation
In daylight, the researchers say the pigs' eyes, teeth and
trotters look green. Their skin has a greenish tinge.
In the dark, shine a blue light on them and they glow
torch-light bright.
The scientists will use the transgenic pigs to study human
disease. Because the pig's genetic material is green, it is easy to spot.
So if, for instance, some of its stem cells are injected into
another animal, scientists can track how they develop without the need for
a biopsy or invasive test.
But creating them has not been easy. Many of the altered
embryos failed to develop.
The researchers say they hope the new, green pigs will mate
with ordinary female pigs to create a new generation - much greater
numbers of transgenic pigs for use in research.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4605202.stm
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