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Guest InuYasha
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan, home to the world’s first transgenic glowing fish, has successfully bred fluorescent green pigs that researchers hope will boost the island’s stem cell research, a professor said on Thursday.

 

By injecting fluorescent green protein into embryonic pigs, a research team at the island’s leading National Taiwan University managed to breed three male transgenic pigs, said professor Wu Shinn-Chih of the university’s Institute and Department of Animal Science and Technology.

 

“There are partially fluorescent green pigs elsewhere, but ours are the only ones in the world that are green from inside out. Even their hearts and internal organs are green,” Wu said on Thursday.

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10818583

 

How in the fuck can this even be considered good science?

Guest InuYasha
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It's a type of coloring that'll show changes and progress within cells with more ease, like when you'd stain cells for microscope view in high school. It wasn't just for shits and giggles.

Yeah, but neon green? Couldn't they have chosen a less absurd color?

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It's a type of coloring that'll show changes and progress within cells with more ease, like when you'd stain cells for microscope view in high school. It wasn't just for shits and giggles.

Yeah, but neon green? Couldn't they have chosen a less absurd color?

Less absurd colors aren't as useful.

Guest InuYasha
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am I the only one that thinks it looks like the green pig is singing?

Babe 2.0? :P

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