Year of the fluorescent green pig

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In honor of the year of the Pig....

China heralds year of the fluorescent green pig

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.

Glow in the dark bacon anyone?

 

[starrkers]

Could be handy for those evening meals around the campfire...but do you eat it, or hang it up for extra illumination?

 

[rgraham666]

What they didn't mention is that these pigs have to be slaughtered real quick or they change into something that would give H. R. Giger nightmares.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

YEAR OF THE PIG?

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Every year is the, Year of the Pig, in Arkansas.​

Rumple Foreskin

 

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Every year is the, Year of the Pig, in Arkansas.​

Arkansas glows in the dark?

 

[TheeGoatPig]

What they didn't mention is that these pigs have to be slaughtered real quick or they change into something that would give H. R. Giger nightmares.

I'm not that scary...

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Flourescent green pigs? I understand what they're trying to illustrate, but isn't the flourescent green pig about as useful and the monkey with four asses?

Q_C

 

[Tom Collins]

Good Lord! Seuss's predictions have come to pass...*runs, screaming* I do not like green eggs and haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam...*disappears over a gently rolling hill...voice fading into the distance*

 

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Good Lord! Seuss's predictions have come to pass...*runs, screaming* I do not like green eggs and haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam...*disappears over a gently rolling hill...voice fading into the distance*

It's not like they've made the chickens florescent. The eggs are still safe...for now.

 

[Tom Collins]

It's not like they've made the chickens florescent. The eggs are still safe...for now.

You know they'll figure out how...the twisted bastids.