"A cloned beagle named Ruppy – short for Ruby Puppy – is the world's first transgenic dog. She and four other beagles all produce a fluorescent protein that glows red under ultraviolet light.
A team led by Byeong-Chun Lee of Seoul National University in South Korea created the dogs by cloning fibroblast cells that express a red fluorescent gene produced by sea anemones."
The medical importance of this is to eventually be able to study human disease through transgenic dog clones.
I like puppies - glowing puppies would make excellent x-mas presents!!
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