Apr 25 2009Red Rover, Red Rover: Glowing Puppies
Created in the same fashion as the glowing kitties we posted way back in December, 2007, scientists have bred transgenic (expressing a gene from another, unrelated organism) puppies that glow red under UV light. I don't want one. Ain't no devil dog livin' in this house!
A team led by Byeong-Chun Lee of Seoul National University in South Korea created the dogs by cloning fibroblast cells that express a red fluorescent gene produced by sea anemones.
Greg Barsh, a geneticist at Stanford University who studies dogs as models of human disease, says creating a transgenic dog is "an important accomplishment", showing that cloning and transgenesis can be applied to a wide range of mammals."I do not know of specific situations where the ability to produce transgenic dogs represents an immediate experimental opportunity," Barsh adds. But transgenic dogs will give researchers another potential tool to understand disease.
Eh, I thought it was so you wouldn't kick your dog on the way to the kitchen for a midnight snack. I don't know about this whole disease bit. Which reminds me: any of you good at identifying rashes? I can send pics.
Hit the jump for what the puppies look like when they're not glowing. Except the middle one, the middle one isn't a glower.
Fluorescent puppy is world's first transgenic dog [newscientist]
Thanks to Heather and JAKE!, who had Glo Worms when they were kids but they left the batteries in for too long and they corroded and their parents threw them away.
Reader Comments
1. Lain - April 25, 2009 1:20 PM
Regardless, they are so cute!
2. naas - April 25, 2009 1:22 PM
Awesomesauce, I want my doggie to glow under a blacklight
3. new school old school - April 25, 2009 1:24 PM
thass nasty. since when does geekologie post on saturdays ? hooray.
4. Freedom - April 25, 2009 1:29 PM
And the point is?
5. Nero - April 25, 2009 1:49 PM
Another senseless project.
6. freak of nature-formerly Hannnukah Montana - April 25, 2009 1:54 PM
Does it mean that whenever I accidentally detach my junk I can possibly clone it with a glowing one? Is that how it works?
Because I really want a glowing one.
7. naas - April 25, 2009 2:12 PM
@6 did you act upon that idea for a new name?
8. freak of nature-formerly Hannnukah Montana - April 25, 2009 2:30 PM
@7 I was just planning to change my name in this site. I didn't want it to be drastic, that way everybody would still know who "freak of nature" really is.
I'm about to bury my previous name since I've converted from Jewish to Catholic. But I still live in Montana tho.
9. Ok - April 25, 2009 2:51 PM
Maybe you guys should take some genetics or cell biology before you call a Stanford geneticist's lab work useless. He's designed the experiment so that fluorescent proteins binds to whatever the protein he's examining so that he may cure a disease.
10. new school old school - April 25, 2009 3:16 PM
@8 - hannukah montana is a way better name in my book
11. HunnyBear - April 25, 2009 3:16 PM
this is great perhaps theyll be able to implant genes that will make us immune to poisons and such! superhumans muahah!
12. ClaMs - April 25, 2009 3:40 PM
Imagine breaking in someone's house at night and finding a red glowing dog. It's bound to scare the hell outta you. Go go super security system!
13. Daisy - April 25, 2009 4:12 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was a prisoner of war, and working in a maple syrup factory for the Nazis. Allied bombers targeted the city, and Max and the other prisoners were put in an underground shelter. Later in his life Max was in the hospital, and the guy in the next bed was writing a book about the bombing, When Max tried to tell him he was there, The guy thought Max had echoalia.
14. Elmo - April 25, 2009 5:08 PM
that's sick! why don't they do this to prisoners of war?
15. Tennist0 - April 25, 2009 5:14 PM
ill take a blue one please
16. naas - April 25, 2009 5:44 PM
@8 well thanks for keeping us informed, because it is important - even that you're still in Montana too
17. Naterator - April 25, 2009 6:21 PM
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18. Naterator - April 25, 2009 6:23 PM
OMGWTFBBQBACON? THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A GIANT >I WANT<.
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19. Naterator - April 25, 2009 6:25 PM
FAIL
20. Naterator - April 25, 2009 6:27 PM
21. Turd Ferguson - April 25, 2009 7:39 PM
It never occurred to any of you that someone is just shinning a flashlight, with a red bulb in it, on the puppy while the lights are out?
22. Watch - April 25, 2009 10:31 PM
@ 13, YOURE FAKE!! NOW SHUT UP!!! people need to quit screwing with animal genetics.
23. shazaam - April 25, 2009 11:17 PM
Quoting GW: "Eh, I thought it was so you wouldn't step on your dog on the way to the kitchen for a midnight snack."
Dude, in Korea, dogs ARE a midnight snack.
24. Gubba - April 26, 2009 12:03 AM
Great really need to see them just like i need to hear them. Blah!
25. frank panduh - April 26, 2009 6:36 AM
surprised you didn't tag this one apocalypse.
26. Garrows - April 26, 2009 6:44 AM
AMAZING!
Check out the glowing cat!
http://ruugle.com/glowingCat.html
27. fooschnicken - April 26, 2009 2:57 PM
@22, eat a dick.......
28. Blah - April 26, 2009 3:02 PM
@21 - has it ever occurred to you that your name is Turd Ferguson? Fake or real, do you know how much money you could make with glowing puppies? Could you imagine glowing monkeys?
29. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - April 27, 2009 9:48 AM
@8
You converted just for the Catholic jokes, didn't you?
30. Betty - July 25, 2009 7:40 AM
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31. trouble getting pregnant - January 27, 2010 8:36 PM
Where do you find all this unique stuff? I am loving your blog. And cute glow in the dark puppies.