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zorgon:
Recent Biotechnology Innovation
Is a Bit Fishy: A Fluorescent Pet
Oh and you thought I was JOKING about the Glofish huh? Well I found these on a whim when I searched for Glofish to go with the article... didn't expect to find genetically altered fish that glow green :o
--- Quote ---TAIPEI, Taiwan -- In the basement of a building down an alley here floats the future of bioengineered pets, and it is glowing.
In a corner, small fish flit about in a dozen aquariums. Bill Kuo, a manager at Taikong Corp., draws a thick curtain and switches on black lights over the tanks. Suddenly, the fish glow a bright green. "Imagine you come home from work, turn out the lights and look at these," Mr. Kuo says. "It's very relaxing."
Fluorescent fish are just one of the latest off-the-wall innovations to come along in the biotechnology march. American researchers are seeking approval for a super-size salmon, retooled with growth hormones. A Canadian company, Nexia Biotechnologies Inc., is injecting spider genes into goats to produce milk that can be refined and woven into "BioSteel," for use in surgical sutures and "ballistic protection," the company says. Another Canadian group has trademarked the name "EnviroPig" for its genetically modified swine, whose manure contains fewer phosphates, a natural pollutant.
But Taikong's fish, which hit the market in Taiwan last month, may well be the world's first genetically modified house pets -- certainly the first designed to glow in the dark and one of the first leisure-time applications for genetic engineering. Born in a Taiwan biologist's lab in 2001 and written up in a scientific journal, the fish were soon discovered by Taikong, a 20-year-old company that sells aquarium equipment and fish food to shops around the world.
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Glowing Fish
Original Source - Wall Street Journal
Frankenstein fish will glow in the bowl
By Thair Shaikh
--- Quote ---A TAIWANESE company has created a genetically modified zebra fish that will glow in the dark, raising fears among environmentalists and the aquarium industry that the fish will start a trend for bio-engineered "Frankenstein pets". The modified fish are expected to be imported into Britain later in the year.
They are the first ornamental fish to be genetically modified. A jellyfish gene has been added to make them glow yellow-green. The GM Medaka or zebra fish - an east Asian freshwater variety - has been developed by Taiwan's Taikong Corporation. It is called the TK-1.
Taikong reported strong interest in Britain, where the aquatic industry is worth £300 million a year. It insisted that the TK-1 was safe, sterile and the fluorescent gene was not harmful. Taikong said it would satisfy European Union rules that genetically modified imports must not threaten health or the environment.
Aquatic industry specialists are worried, however, that the TK-1 is the first of many GM pet fish destined for Britain. Tropical fish are being bio-engineered to tolerate cold and could colonise British waters if they escaped.
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Frankenstein fish will glow in the bowl
Love this quote:
"Piranhas that could survive in our waterways would be a major problem," said Derek Lambert, the editor of Today's Fishkeeper magazine, who is urging traders to boycott the TK-1. "We are worried about Frankenstein fish."
Ya think?
::)
Fun with Glow-in-the-Dark Pets and Animals
--- Quote ---In 2003 scientists created the ultimate pet: genetically modified fish that glow in the dark. In future, more pets will be added to the list. Take a look at what may be possible...
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http://www.glowingpets.com/
zorgon:
Enviropig
Image Credit: National Geographic
Genetically altered "Enviropigs" can pass on greener genes to their offspring.
Gene-Altered "Enviropig" to Reduce Dead Zones?
March 30, 2010
--- Quote ---Pigs modified to excrete less phosphorus win limited approval in Canada.
Move over, bacon. Here comes something greener.
A genetically engineered pig recently approved for limited production in Canada makes urine and feces that contain up to 65 percent less phosphorous, officials have announced.
That could be good news for lakes, rivers, and ocean deltas, where phosphorous from animal waste can play a role in causing algal blooms. These outbursts of algae rapidly deplete the water's oxygen, creating vast dead zones for fish and other aquatic life.
Dubbed Enviropig, the genetically altered animal cleared a major hurdle last month, when the government-run Environment Canada approved the animal for production in controlled research settings.
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Gene-Altered "Enviropig" to Reduce Dead Zones? - National Geographic
--- Quote ---The Enviropig is the trademark for a genetically modified line of Yorkshire pigs with the capability to digest plant phosphorus more efficiently than ordinary unmodified pigs that was developed at the University of Guelph. Enviropigs produce the enzyme phytase in the salivary glands that is secreted in the saliva. When cereal grains are consumed, the phytase mixes with feed in the pig's mouth, and once swallowed the phytase is active in the acidic environment of the stomach degrading indigestible phytic acid with the release of phosphate that is readily digested by the pig.
Cereal grains including corn, soybean and barley contain 50 to 75% of their phosphorus in the form of phytic acid. Since the Enviropigs can now digest phytic acid, there is no need to include either a mineral phosphate supplement or commercially produced phytase to balance the diet. Because no phosphorus is added to the diet and there is digestion of the phytic acid, the manure is substantially reduced in phosphorus content, ranging from a 20 to 60% decrease depending upon the stage of growth and the diet consumed.
The benefits of the enviropig if commercialized include reduced feed cost and reduced phosphorus pollution as compared to the raising of ordinary pigs.
The Enviropig was developed by the introduction of a transgene construct composed of the promoter segment of the murine parotid secretory protein gene and the E. coli phytase gene. This construct was introduced into a fertilized embryo by pronuclear microinjection, and this embryo along with other embryos was surgically implanted into the reproductive tract of an estrous synchronized sow. After a 114 day gestation period, the sow farrowed and piglets born were checked for the presence of the transgene and for phytase enzyme activity in the saliva. Through breeding, this line of pigs is in the 7th generation, and the phytase trait is stably transmitted in a Mendelian fashion.
An editorial entitled "Genetically engineered meat close to your table" was published with online video and audio explaining the digestive capability of the Enviropig
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SOURCE - WIKIPEDIA
GM pigs: Green ham with your eggs?
--- Quote ---The BBC's Jeremy Cooke has had rare access to some genetically modified Enviropigs in Canada
In a small complex of nondescript barns set in the flat, snow-covered fields of Ontario is a scientific project which, some argue, represents the new frontier of a technology that could benefit millions of people around the world.
For others what is happening here is weird, dangerous science.
The pigs they are breeding could be among the first genetically modified farm animal to be approved for human consumption.
The huge controversy over the introduction of genetically modified crops is well documented, but this seems to take that debate a step further, and into even more troubled waters.
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"I am very worried and I think people around the world should be worried about what's happening in North America” - Lucy Sharratt Anti-GM campaigner
GM pigs: Green ham with your eggs? - BBC News
Genetically engineered meal close to your table
--- Quote ---The pigs, pale pink and bristly, trot around the pen, stopping every so often to root in piles of bedding. They grunt and squeal and wag their short curlicue tails. All three like a hard scratch on the rump.
In almost every way, these broad-backed oinkers are just like the other Yorkshire pigs at the opposite end of the barn.
All except for the brackish green muck that oozes from their backsides. And the snippet of mouse DNA that has been slipped into their piggy chromosomes.
These are Enviropigs, developed by researchers at the University of Guelph to poop out more environmentally friendly waste. The trademarked pigs are just one of dozens of genetically engineered animals at research institutions around the world whose genes have been altered for human benefit. And, due to a recent move in the U.S., the Enviropig may be the first to arrive on your dinner plate.
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Genetically engineered meal close to your table - Toronto Star
Somamech:
Yeah Taiwanese companys seemed obsessed with Glow in The Dark :o
Glow in The Dark Angel Fish
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN6P6kFjrjM[/youtube]
zorgon:
Scientists Produce Glow-in-the-Dark Cats
Mayo Clinic Teams with Glowing Cats Against AIDS, Other Diseases
--- Quote ---The Mayo team of physicians, virologists, veterinarians and gene therapy researchers, along with collaborators in Japan, sought to mimic the way evolution normally gives rise over vast time spans to protective protein versions. They devised a way to insert effective monkey versions of them into the cat genome.
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credit: Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic Teams with Glowing Cats
Scientists Produce Glow-in-the-Dark Cats
--- Quote ---When scientists insert rhesus macaque genes plus jellyfish genes into unfertilized cat eggs, the cats that result post-fertilization are resistant to feline immunodeficiency virus, which causes feline AIDS. They also glow fluorescent green under "special" lights.
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Scientists Produce Glow-in-the-Dark Cats
Green glow the cats - New Scientist
Related Links:
1. Glow cat: fluorescent green felines could help study of HIV
2. Antiviral restriction factor transgenesis in the domestic cat
3. Glow-in-the-Dark Kittens Lend a Paw to AIDS Fight
4. Glowing transgenic cats could boost AIDS research
Here one of the cats that was genetically engineered to have genes that code for a fluorescent jellyfish protein, which produces the green color, as well as an antiviral restriction factor from a rhesus macaque.
CREDIT: Mayo ClinicView full size image
zorgon:
--- Quote --- Originally posted by ellirium113
[Hypothetical] Glow in the dark tarantula...who would be nervous if you encountered this in the dark? :o
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkpIOGPkyAI&feature=related[/youtube]
Dogs...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4rwrzz7Kyc[/youtube]
Mice...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaVGzy0qB5k[/youtube]
Axolotl...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uleb3MlZ4JU&feature=related[/youtube]
I imagine before long we'll see people getting some skin augmentation done so they can glow too. :P
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