Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Transgenic, Glowing Animals

Well if you keep up with the nobel prizes then this won't be news to you. I just heard of this so I assume a couple of you haven't heard of this either.

The winner of the Nobel in chemistry in 2008, Dr. Osama Shimomur, was awarded for discovering how to put green florescent protein from jellyfish into animals. It can make any animal glow under black lights. Imagine that at a rave. It's pretty crazy and apparently has lots of real life application to curing diseases.


-Video- 





-More info-
http://io9.com/#!5060668/nobel-prize-in-chemistry-awarded-for-transgenic-glowing-animals
Posted by at
Labels: , , , , , , , ,

14 comments:

  1. SiphilMarch 2, 2011 at 3:40 PM

    This is quite awesome. Although I would be quite terrified of a pack of glowing animals.

    ReplyDelete
  2. RootYourDroid.netMarch 2, 2011 at 4:21 PM

    Wow that is freaky. Soon sci-fi movies wont need special effects.

    ReplyDelete
  3. KingofthemelvinsMarch 2, 2011 at 7:19 PM

    That's incredible. I was blinded by science

    ReplyDelete
  4. RossMarch 2, 2011 at 7:24 PM

    science is sick lol

    ReplyDelete
  5. ShakuruMarch 2, 2011 at 7:55 PM

    It's too bad most people see science as some boring nerd thing.
    If only they knew half the things that scientists and researchers really do.

    ReplyDelete
  6. RQMarch 2, 2011 at 7:56 PM

    Those monkeys don't look happy, but now they can find bananas at night.

    ReplyDelete
  7. SKS FKFMarch 2, 2011 at 8:56 PM

    Cool article. Reminds me of another one where they used the bioluminescence gene. http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/mf_optigenetics/all/1

    ReplyDelete
  8. Guy Movie BloggerMarch 2, 2011 at 10:11 PM

    This is pretty crazy. And not just a little unsettling. One day, they're going to invent some crap that'll kill us all.

    ReplyDelete
  9. HarvengerMarch 3, 2011 at 3:16 AM

    science.. beautiful.

    ReplyDelete
  10. Solsby KidMarch 3, 2011 at 4:12 AM

    Thats amazing

    ReplyDelete
  11. obiMarch 3, 2011 at 5:45 AM

    interesting stuff thanks for posting.

    ReplyDelete
  12. metaphysicalfarmsMarch 3, 2011 at 9:17 AM

    I'm growing my hair back!!!

    ReplyDelete
  13. IsaacMarch 3, 2011 at 12:25 PM

    What has science done???!!

    ReplyDelete
  14. ColinMarch 3, 2011 at 4:05 PM

    It's amazing, maybe one day I'll fulfill my childhood dream of becoming the Hulk... too bad I'm still weak as shit.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)