South Korean Scientists made Glowing Dog

Seoul - Research team in Seoul National University have created a glowing dog using cloning methods that could help find cures in human diseases and illnesses according to Yonhap News


The South Korean scientists said that the genetically modified female beagle - named Tegon and was born in 2009 has been found glowing with a green fluorescent color when put under an ultraviolet light after giving doxycycline antibiotic. 


The researchers said that the ability of the dog to glow can be turn on and off by adding the drug to its food.


"The creation of Tegon opens new horizons since the gene injected to make the dog glow can be substituted with genes that trigger fatal human diseases," the news agency quoted lead researcher Lee Byeong-chun as saying.

He said the dog was created using the somatic cell nuclear transfer technology that the university team used to make the world's first cloned dog, Snuppy, in 2005.

The scientist said that because there are 268 illnesses that humans and dogs have in common, creating dogs that artificially show such symptoms could aid treatment methods for diseases that afflict humans.

The latest discovery published in 'Genesis', an international journal, took four years of research with roughly 3.2 billion won ($3 million) spent to make the dog and conduct the necessary verification tests, Yonhap said. — Reuters


from gmanews.tv


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new breakthrough!
it will be a big help if they would find ways to cure incurable human diseases but not make a human glow. That would be an advance Halloween costume.

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