South Korean scientists say they have cloned white Turkish Angora cats. But that's not all: the cats glow red under ultraviolet light. Pictured: on the left, an altered cat; on the right a normal cat.A team led by Kong Il-keun, an animal cloning expert at Gyeongsang National University, said the cats would be used for genetic research. How does making the cats glow under ultraviolet light lead to this?
They took the cells from a donor cat and added the fluorescent gene into them before transplanting the genetically modified cells into eggs. This would mean they should be able to add genes carrying specific diseases to the cells when they clone future cats.
"Cats have similar genes to those of humans," said Il-keun. "We can make genetically modified cats that can be used to develop new cures for genetic diseases."
Don't believe it? I must admit the scandal over scientist Hwang Woo-suk and his faked results have blemished South Korea's reputation. Thus, everything that comes out of there is questioned.
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They collected cells from a donor cat and added fluorescent gene into them before transplanting the genetically modified cells into eggs. This means they must be able to add genes to disease-specific cells when they clone cats future.
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