Glow In The Dark Puppy

by **Illuminated One** Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:50 pm

Meet Ruppy, the glow-in-the-dark puppy.

The cloned beagle -- her full name is Ruby Puppy -- and four other pups glow because they have genetic information from sea anemones, a breakthrough scientists hope will help in the study of human diseases.

The pups produce a protein that glows under ultraviolet light, New Scientist magazine reported yesterday.

Researchers created the first transgenic dog -- so-called because it has genes transferred from another species -- by cloning and inserting cells that express a red fluorescent gene produced by sea anemones.

Scientists hope it will lead to transgenic dog models of human diseases, the magazine quoted one of the team members, CheMyong Ko of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, as saying.

"The next step for us is to generate a true disease model," he said.

check source for more photos and video of the dogs glowing in the dark below

SOURCE: http://www.nypost.com/seven/04242009/news/nationalnews/glow_in_the_bark_beagle_165954.htm