Koreans create glowing barbecue

[brainhulk]

http://news.yahoo.com/south-korean-scientists-create-glowing-dog-report-100340668.html

A research team from Seoul National University (SNU) said the genetically modified female beagle, named Tegon and born in 2009, has been found to glow fluorescent green under ultraviolet light if given a doxycycline antibiotic, the report said.
The researchers, who completed a two-year test, said the ability to glow can be turned on or off by adding a drug to the dog's food.

 

[Schadenfroh]

This gives new meating to the Beagle Bagel restaurant chain.

Maybe they can market this to the techno / rave crowd to expand their audience?

 

[Wyndru]

Bacon too! (From China anyhow), using injections of a protein.

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=881

 

[Fritzo]

 

[Phokus]

That's ok, i didn't need to sleep tonight anyway

 

[Red Squirrel]

Funny, last night I was thinking how cool it would be to inject firefly DNA into tree DNA to see if one could make trees like in Avatar. If they can do it to animals... maybe it *IS* possible with plants. That would be wicked!

But in reality... the point of this is??? lol.

 

[Gibsons]

Funny, last night I was thinking how cool it would be to inject firefly DNA into tree DNA to see if one could make trees like in Avatar. If they can do it to animals... maybe it *IS* possible with plants. That would be wicked!

Been done, long time ago. Well, jellyfish, not firefly, but same idea.

 

[El Guaraguao]

If I was the author to that story, I wouldn't even have posted it without pics. Fail.

 

[kami333]

Funny, last night I was thinking how cool it would be to inject firefly DNA into tree DNA to see if one could make trees like in Avatar. If they can do it to animals... maybe it *IS* possible with plants. That would be wicked!

But in reality... the point of this is??? lol.

It's basically a proof of concept.

From article:
"gene injected to make the dog glow can be substituted with genes that trigger fatal human diseases"

 

[brainhulk]

I wish they would inject chlorophyll into alaskan king crab legs. their legs would grow like weeds and then i would break them off and eat them with melted butter.

 

[Jeff7]

South Korean scientists said on Wednesday they have created a glowing dog using a cloning technique that could help find cures for human diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, Yonhap news agency reported.

Great, now we'll have people who can't remember why they're glowing.



<rimshot>

 

[Gibsons]

I wish they would inject chlorophyll into alaskan king crab legs. their legs would grow like weeds and then i would break them off and eat them with melted butter.

How about making soybean that grows crabmeat?

 

[seepy83]

404 - Glowing Barbecue not found.

 

[brainhulk]

 

[Newbian]

404 - Glowing Barbecue not found.

Dog = future barbecue over there.