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Via TIME Healthland:
To create the kittens, Poeschla and his colleagues used a rhesus monkey gene that confers resistance to feline AIDS and a gene that allows certain jellyfish to emit an eerie green glow when exposed to ultraviolet light. Both genes were inserted into egg cells obtained from female cats that were being spayed. The eggs were fertilized and then transferred to a surrogate mother cat, similar to the way in vitro fertilization is done in humans using donor eggs.
4 comments:
interesting research
I must admit, I'm a little freaked out by all this genetical manipulations... They say it's all for the good of humaity that we're going to find cure to diseases, but aren't going to create new ones too???
I just want a glow in the dark kittie now, becca. :)
Jon, I worry about that too, but then I worry that maybe I watched too much Star Trek as a child. ;)
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