May 28 2009Okay?: Another Day, Another Glowing Animal
Well scientists have already created glowing dogs and cats, so it was only a matter of time before somebody did a monkey. Nice, guy, thanks for the AIDS.
Though primates that make a glowing protein have been created before, these are the first to keep the change in their bloodlines.
Although the work demonstrates the principle that a gene can be introduced into a primate bloodline, study co-author Hideyuki Okano of the Keio University School of Medicine said it may not be suitable for studying all diseases.That limitation is about 10,000 bases, or letters, of the genetic code. That upper bound will constrain the diseases that can be studied.
Great, so we've got more glowing animals with the promise of help curing disease. Well hurry up and cure one already! I'm starting to think these "scientists" are just making glowing pets to bring home to their daughters. Which, I think we can all agree, is despicable (glowing dinosaur, pronto). You can't hide from me, little Anchisaur!
Glowing monkeys 'to aid research' [bbcnews]
Thanks to Matt, who, LOOK BEHIND YOU - A THREE HEADED MONKEY! (swish)
Reader Comments
1. Que - May 28, 2009 9:17 AM
Que poor little guy.
2. Doublep90 - May 28, 2009 9:20 AM
why do we need glowing animals?? cool monkey ^^ who wanna buy me one of those :D?
3. STOMPY - May 28, 2009 9:24 AM
Someone should bring that monkey into a rave and really freak out the aicd stoners...
4. joel snipes - May 28, 2009 9:26 AM
So will people glow soon?
5. Heather - May 28, 2009 9:26 AM
Creating glowing animals is just one step on the way to creating glowing mutant zombie animals. Mark my words.
6. Quik - May 28, 2009 9:27 AM
In the words of Chris Rock:
"They don't want to HEAL nobody!
The money ain't in the CURE!
It's in the ME-DI-CINE!"
7. STOMPY - May 28, 2009 9:29 AM
@5
At least glowing zombies would be easier to see!
8. The_One - May 28, 2009 9:41 AM
Of course. Now we got radio active monkeys in addition to robots. Good job scientists.
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9. catch22 - May 28, 2009 9:53 AM
so in a nutshell they not only made monkeys glow... but they made it so their offsping, and further generations will also glow?
thats...kinda messed up
10. dubba - May 28, 2009 9:54 AM
@7
its like the "glowing ones" in fallout 3
zombies irradiated tothe point of illuminescance
11. Leonidas - May 28, 2009 10:04 AM
Uncle Leopard and his nighttime predator buddies rejoice.
12. Ollie Williams - May 28, 2009 10:06 AM
Glowing monkey, destroyer of worlds.
13. STOMPY - May 28, 2009 10:08 AM
@10
I don't know if you know this but I'm not that cool. All I own is a wii and I can barely find time to play it, and when I do it is usually zelda, zelda 2, snes zelda, n64 zelda, or donkey kong country... Of course I could school almost everyone in kart and not too bad with a smash bro... One of these days i'll step up to the sexbox360...
14. the Commish - May 28, 2009 10:18 AM
FAIL!! This post fails on so many levels. Who the hell cares!?
This is just like when, according to legend, a rat found some turtles in the sewer and gathered them up in a can. The turtles were glowing and the rat thought that was pretty cool. He trained them to become mutant ninja death machines but all they wanted to do was eat pizza.
15. Honky Magoo - May 28, 2009 10:18 AM
I, for one, welcome our mutant glowing monkey overlords.
16. Nacho Jeez (Hannukah Montana) - May 28, 2009 10:30 AM
@13
Yo. One time, I fondled with this chick's monkey and all of sudden it started to glow crimson red. I was like, "b!tch you are trippin'!" So anyway... I went to the bathroom and I looked at my monkey... and guess what happened? It wasn't glowing! I was like, "Yessss!!! Thank you..." I got back to the room and told my wife, "You need to get the f'uck outta here."
17. naas - May 28, 2009 10:39 AM
^ hehe
Reminds me of the curse from the ghost of the monkey's back, an old bedtime tale
18. Lee - May 28, 2009 11:10 AM
This is completely pointless. These people should not be allowed near animals.
And these clearly cannot be led back into the wild, because they'll be killed by night predators (you know, there's a reason animals don't glow in the first place) they're going to have to live a shitty life at the lab or zoo or some shit if they continue to live. Awesome.
F---tards.
This shouldn't be legal.
It serves no damn good point.
I'd be okay with it if it did, but this isn't going anywhere.
19. Crazywow - May 28, 2009 11:36 AM
OH those wacky Japanese and their used undies vending machines, scary life-like robots, girls and cups and now ....neon marmacets.
20. Adam - May 28, 2009 11:43 AM
@18 do night predators have uv lights? Also, since when do lab animals used to test disease and genetics get released into the wild? Doesn't that only happen in bad horror movies right before the outbreak?
21. Milkman - May 28, 2009 12:25 PM
I agree, this is a fracking travesty! Who could ever do that to a little helpless butt monkey!
PS, where can I buy one?
22. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - May 28, 2009 1:11 PM
18 - This has a point. The point is to see if you can genetically modify a primate, keep it healthy, and have those genes pass on to the offspring. If that can happen, we'll have a way to battle Alzheimer's, MS, LGD, Autism, Cancer, (insert long list of diseases here). The monkey's aren't being harmed, chillax.
23. Alioth - May 28, 2009 1:44 PM
Haha, don't forget about Marburg and Ebola :)
24. Rhialto - May 28, 2009 2:44 PM
In the future we will have glowing pets,so you can find them in the dark.Otherwise i don't see the sense of glowing animals.
25. GFP FTW - May 28, 2009 2:49 PM
At 18: Maybe you should take some cell biology or genetics before you start criticizing researchers' works. They're probably developing ways to highlight certain proteins to help in studying certain diseases. Get some education.
26. McCracken - May 28, 2009 5:27 PM
A friends showed me this a few days ago.
@3 lol that would be funny
27. aids - May 28, 2009 6:08 PM
Now when can i have my penis glowing in the dark like that
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28. pro - June 1, 2009 6:31 AM
Yah! I'd like to see glowing genitalia!
29. O.o - February 23, 2010 6:40 PM
:O I WANNA GLOW NEXT!