Cloned Pigs Glow Like Their Mom
Jan. 9, 2008
A cloned pig whose genes were altered to make it glow fluorescent green has passed on the trait to its young, a development that could lead to the future breeding of pigs for human transplant organs, a Chinese university reported.
Two of the 11 piglets glow fluorescent green from their snout, trotters, and tongue under ultraviolet light. Their mother was one of three pigs born with the trait in December 2006 after pig embryos were injected with fluorescent green protein.
"Continued development of this technology can be applied to ... the production of special pigs for the production of human organs for transplant," Liu Zhonghua, a professor overseeing the breeding program, said....
Two of the 11 piglets glow fluorescent green from their snout, trotters, and tongue under ultraviolet light. Their mother was one of three pigs born with the trait in December 2006 after pig embryos were injected with fluorescent green protein.
"Continued development of this technology can be applied to ... the production of special pigs for the production of human organs for transplant," Liu Zhonghua, a professor overseeing the breeding program, said....
Tokyo's Meiji University last year successfully cloned a transgenic pig that carries the genes for human diabetes, while South Korean scientists cloned cats that glow red when exposed to ultraviolet rays -- an achievement they said could help develop cures for human genetic diseases.
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