TRANSGENIC GREEN PIGS STEM CELL MEDICAL RESEARCH TAIWAN
February 1st, 2006
BY DAVID HAWORTH
IT'S the stuff of nightmares or a delirium tremens attack: scientists have produced green pigs. These transgenic creatures, green from the innards to their skin and fluorescent in the dark, will help to boost stem cell research, according to the Department of Animal Science and Technology at the Taiwan National University.
"There are partially fluorescent pigs elsewhere," says Professor Wu Shinn-Chih, "but ours are the only ones in the world which are green from the inside out. Even their hearts and other internal organs are ...
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