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Not since the 1980s have we seen this much fluorescence on one creature. Born in the lab of National Taiwan University, these phosphorescent porkers are green from the inside out--heart, ham and all. Scientists injected fluorescent proteins into the pigs at the embryonic stage, hoping that their very visible tissues could later help in the study of human disease.

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