Pigs glow fluorescent

Taiwanese scientists have successfully cultivated three pigs emitting fluorescent light in the dark, marking a potential turning point in stem cell research.

The team inserted a protein (extracted from a jellyfish species) into the nucleus of pig embryonic cells, thereby creating three transgenic pigs. These pigs glow from inside, including organs.

Wu Shinn-Chih, from the Department of Animal Science and Technology at the National University of Taiwan, said the group hopes these pigs can help scientists follow the growth of tissues - in cells. The root is used to repair broken organs.

" This work is really important. It will be useful in promoting the clinical study of human stem cells, because genetically it is believed that pigs belong to the most closely related group of animals ," Wu said. identify.

" I'm not sure if there are other fluorescent pigs somewhere in the world, but so far, in photos of this field, I've never seen such pigs, with my whole body. emitted green in the dark, "Wu said.

Wu also denied concerns that the technology could jeopardize the ecosystem. " There is nothing to worry about, because unlike fish, these pigs have no way to cross-breed with wild species and create horrible hybrids ," he said.

Taiwan was also the place where the first genetically modified fish was released in 2003 - the event named by Time magazine as "the coolest inventions" of that year.