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If you have trouble finding your cat at night, perhaps a designer fluorescent cat would be the pet for you.
South Korean researchers say they’ve cloned cats by manipulating a certain gene that happens to deal with some otherwise inhibited fluorescence. The side effect: the cats “glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet beams.”
Other than the novelty, why should we care?
“The ability to produce cloned cats with the manipulated genes is significant as it could be used for developing treatments for genetic diseases and for reproducing model (cloned) animals suffering from the same diseases as human,” officials said in a statement.
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