Glow-voles

dustindriver | Categroies: Biology, Genetics | Tags: , , | Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

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Seems like they’re injecting everything with glow-y jellyfish genes nowadays. The latest victims of the glow-in-the-dark craze are prairie voles.

Scientists injected a jellyfish gene that makes a fluorescent protein into vole embryos. When the embryos grew into itty-bitty baby voles, they glowed. Even better, the voles were able to pass the glow gene down to their offspring.

Link to ScienceDaily article

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