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A glowing bunny sounds like a creature from Jefferson Airplane’s psychedelic-laced song, “White Rabbit,” but real fluorescent rabbits were recently born at the University of Istanbul, Turkey. 1 n. q2 `* \: u( T2 bwww1.tvboxnow.comRabbits join a growing list of fluorescent fur-bearers. Genetic engineers have created glowing dogs, cats, pigs and mice by inserting a gene from a jellyfish into the mammals’ DNA. The jellyfish gene codes for a protein that emits light when exposed to ultraviolet light. . y6 m, g' P* g, e/ Z公仔箱論壇The jellyfish gene adds an obvious physical change to an engineered animal. This allows scientists to know that genetic material successfully transferred into a new organism.公仔箱論壇2 I/ q+ Y6 B( S, `5 M
For example, when Mayo Clinic researchers genetically engineered cats to carry a protein that defends the animals from infection by the feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV, the cat version of HIV), the scientists added the fluorescent gene along with the FIV-resistance gene. That way they knew that any cat that fluoresced also carried protein protection against FIV, a trait that would otherwise be invisible. - {: O |! W. A/ I4 h( By Tim Wall Published August 15, 2013 Discovery News ) : Y7 `$ S* I/ O" M' e6 |tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb , [; M& h7 b4 `; B8 e公仔箱論壇+ }& M& }) R: X6 H. K& U+ Q$ p
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