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1.13.2006

Fluorescent Green Bacon Anyone???

Stolen wholesale from SFGate's Day in Pictures:

The other white meat that glows in the dark: First they bred a transgenic glowing fish. Now researchers at National Taiwan University in Taipei have improved upon the feat by creating a fluorescent-green pig.

The BBC is reporting that National Taiwan University's Department of Animal Science and Technology has pulled off a fluorescent pig coup in breeding the green-to-the-core "transgenic" pigs using jellyfish DNA. The DNA was injected into about 260 embryos which were then implanted into eight sows. Four became pregnant, leading to the birth of three male piglets three months ago.

The scientists apparently insist "the three pigs they have produced are better" than those concocted by rival fluorescent pig breeders. In fact, they are green through-and-through since their internal organs are green and their skin has a green tinge in daylight.
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