BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - Chinese scientists have successfully bred partially green fluorescent pigs which they hope will boost stem cell research, Xinhua news agency said.
A research team at the Northeast Agricultural University in Harbin managed to breed three transgenic pigs by injecting fluorescent green protein into embryonic pigs, Xinhua quoted Professor Liu Zhonghua as saying.
"The mouth, trotters and tongue of the pigs are green under ultraviolet light," said Liu.
Genetic material from jellyfish was injected into the womb of a sow which gave birth to the three pigs 114 days later in Harbin, he said.
China celebrates the start of the Year of the Pig in February.
...I really don't know how to react to this...
2 comments:
The only way this could be cooler would be if the pigs had stinging tentacles.
And hell no, I wouldn't eat it.
I dunno - I'm pretty tempted.
Let's wait 4 more years and see if they do the same thing for the year of the rooster, because if they do, then I eat them on a boat...I would eat them with a goat...
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