Transgenic Pigs that glow in the night. This amazing creation has been successful by other researchers, but the Taiwanese say they are the first to have pigs that are completely green: both inside and outside ... In the light of day, skin and eyes pigs have a slightly greenish in the dark, they turn bright green. How were they obtained these creatures? A fluorescent protein extracted from jellyfish was introduced by "microinjection" in the nucleus of cells in an embryo pig, "said Professor Wu Shinn-Chih, team leader and member of the Faculty of Animal Science of National Taiwan University. "Yes, it's really important. This could be useful to the acceleration of clinical research on human stem cells because pigs are generally considered as among the animals closest to human beings, "he added. M. Wu hopes that the technology developed can be used in particular to monitor the development of tissues when stem cells are used to generate new organs for humans to replace other deficient. "There is no reason to worry because cochonsverts can not be cross with wild species and produce FrankenCochons," assured the researcher. (Source: LCI [fr] )
