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US Taxpayer Money at Work!
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Posted by: Shalome
How do you make a mouse glow in the dark? Simple... just give it HIV! From Yahoo News:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California scientists have found a better way to make glowing mice--and rats, too.
Nobel Prize-winning biologist David Baltimore and a team of researchers said on Thursday that they have found a new way to introduce foreign DNA into animals, such as mice, by using a crippled offshoot of HIV (news - web sites), the virus that causes AIDS (news - web sites) in humans.
In an experiment, the researchers at the Pasadena-based California Institute of Technology were able to use the virus to deposit a jellyfish gene into single-cell mouse embryos.
Most of the mice that were born from those embryos carried a special protein derived from jellyfish throughout their bodies that caused them to glow green under a fluorescent light, the scientists said.
Glow-in-the-dark mice are cool. 
Posted by: Spork Lover
I'll take two... can you specify color? I want neon orange and flourescent blue
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