This is very weird...
The picture below shows a foot of a cloned fluorescent puppy, a three-month-old beagle, glowing in the dark under ultra-violet light and under normal lighting at Seoul National University's College of Veterinary Medicine in Seoul May 13, 2009.
The puppy is one of 2nd generation Ruppies, offspring of Ruppy, the world's first transgenic dog which carries fluorescent genes. They took a fluorescent protein, much like that produced by some sea anenomes, and inserted it into the cell of a beagle.
The name Ruppy is a combination of the words Ruby and Puppy, and the offspring of such dogs will possess the same fluorescent gene as their mothers.
from Jo Yong-Hak of Reuters
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