Sunday, May 17, 2009

GLOWING ANIMALS


Green fluorescent protein, introduced into DNA of egg via virus (2008)
Scientists at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta are using green fluorescent protein to study Huntington's disease, which destroys nervous tissue. 

In 2008 the researchers infected unfertilized monkey eggs with an HIV-like virus, which changed the eggs' DNA to include the defect that causes Huntington's

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