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agentsunfish:derinthemadscientist:monetizeyourcat:minimalisturl:crimewave420:thesleuthjournal:Scientists Create The World’s First Glow-In-The-Dark Pigswait butno dont worry, its sciencehave you ever tried to find a pig in the dark? it’s fucking hard. there’s no downside to this#?????? #I WANT #MAKE ME GLOW IN THE DARK #ITS NOT LONG BEFORE I CAN HAVE GLOW IN THE DARK TITS #BLESS SCIENTISTSActually making stuff glow in the dark is super easy, genetic engineers do it all the time.There are several proteins you can use, but the most common is GFP (green flourescent protein), which glows under blacklight. You just slip the gene for it in the DNA and you’re done. It has tons of uses. It gets used a lot just to show that a genetic engineering technique works — if your thing glows, you engineered it successfully. Or say I’m curious about where a particular protein is expressed in a developing rat fetus (there are a lot of reasons why somebody might want to know this, but I won’t go into them here). I can engineer rat fetuses so that GFP will appear with that protein. Then, wherever there is glow under blacklight, there’s that protein — the more glow, the more protein.So yeah, a skin graft and a blacklight could give you glow in the dark tits. But it’d be easier and less painful to just get one of those glowing tattoos.im amazed by this information. i thought it was a super duper this never happens thing. but also slightly embarrassed at my tags did i really write thatomgEnjoy these pictures of things that glow in the dark due to GFP:This mouse is expressing GFP in conjunction with cartilege or bone growth, I think.This cat has eyes, they just don’t glow. It was developed to confirm a GE technique for cats to research AIDS.This rabbit was commissioned as an art project, but the government got pissy and made them kill it.This is the jellyfish that GFP comes from: -- source link
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