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A glowing bunny sounds like a creature from Jefferson Airplane’s psychedelic-laced song, “White Rabbit,” but real fluorescent rabbits were recently born at the University of Istanbul, Turkey.os.tvboxnow.com2 q3 m& D D$ r1 L% m/ ?
Rabbits join a growing list of fluorescent fur-bearers. Genetic engineers have created glowing dogs, cats, pigs and mice by inserting a gene from a jellyfish into the mammals’ DNA. The jellyfish gene codes for a protein that emits light when exposed to ultraviolet light. 0 M5 R6 v4 ^4 nThe jellyfish gene adds an obvious physical change to an engineered animal. This allows scientists to know that genetic material successfully transferred into a new organism. & g& r( P6 p8 k# GFor example, when Mayo Clinic researchers genetically engineered cats to carry a protein that defends the animals from infection by the feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV, the cat version of HIV), the scientists added the fluorescent gene along with the FIV-resistance gene. That way they knew that any cat that fluoresced also carried protein protection against FIV, a trait that would otherwise be invisible.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb0 R1 A1 d& \0 G k& m( g) K9 G0 a# \! w
( By Tim Wall Published August 15, 2013 Discovery News ) + q0 i3 h* D% }# L/ p$ j0 H: BTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。* a0 b' v$ O% @: {# S7 I ; l/ F6 z& J- [0 h6 u3 Jos.tvboxnow.com 0 K9 A/ [* k$ X0 | |) v7 gtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb3 S1 d7 \- d7 b% Y) m, v