Monday, January 21, 2019

glowing pigs

what's green grunts and glow the dark. A taiwanese pig of course. in daylight  the pig eyes teeth and  trotters look green and their skin has a greenish tinge. but in the dark if a blue light is shone on them they glow bright as a torch. Scientists in  Taiwan  have bred three fluorescent  green  pig by adding genetic material from fish  into normal pig embryos. Although other countries have created partially  fluorescent pig these are the first to be green from the inside out. Even each pig heart and internal organs are green. DNA from fish  was added to around 265 pig embryos embryos which  were implanted in eight different sows. Four of the female pig became pregnant and gave birth  to there  green male piglets in 2005. Two years earlier Taiwanese scientists had  created the world's first glowing green fish. Now researchers hope that the pigs will able to in the study of stem cell research to combat human diseases. from book called  Ripley  believe  it or not 















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