Interesting artificial glowing animals

For research and commercial purposes, scientists have carried out genetic modification to create artificial glowing animals. Let's look at their special products.

A few transgenic Medaka fish glow in the dark when swimming in an aquarium in Taipei on September 6, 2001. Taiwan's Taikong Group created these fish with the intention of starting to market them before public opinion as the world's first pets capable of glowing in the dark. Photo: Reuters.

Taikong Group's genetically modified fish Medaka boasts a special glow in a tank at a show in Taipei on July 26, 2007. Photo: Reuters.

The Archocentrus Nigrofasciatus Var fish have the ability to artificially glow at the Taiwan International Aquatic Exhibition 2010. Photo: Reuters.

Combined image shows a leg of a cloned hound, 3 months old glowing in the dark under ultraviolet light (left) and under normal light at Seoul National University, Korea on the 13th May 5, 2009. Photo: Reuters.

This particular hunting dog is one of the early descendants of "Ruppy" - the world's first genetically modified dog to carry fluorescent genes. Scientists took a fluorescent protein and transplanted it into the hound's cells. Children of dogs like Ruppy will also inherit the same fluorescent genes as their mothers and are able to glow in the dark under ultraviolet light. Photo: Reuters.

A genetically modified Convict Cichlids fish in a water tank at a press conference to introduce the Taiwan International Aquatic Exhibition 2010. Photo: Reuters .

Three transgenic pigs glowing green in Taipei in January 2006. Taiwanese scientists - the birthplace of the world's first artificial glowing fish - hope their new success will boost the territory's stem cell research activity. Photo: Reuters.

Neon light emanates from genetically modified zebrafish at the Taiwan International Aquatic Exhibition in November 2009.