Science Creates Glowing Kittens, Monkeys and Sheep!

Everything seems to be glowing these days! First glowing plants, now... sheep! Anthony reports on the fluorescent protein that's turning animals bioluminescent, and the implications it has for science.
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"Check Out These Modified Glow In The Dark Sheep"
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"Over millions of years, many animals on Earth have evolved to make it tougher for predators to hunt them."
"Glowing Animals: Beasts Shining for Science"
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"In 1961 researcher Osamu Shimomura of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Massachusetts noticed a molecule in this jellyfish that glowed bright green under ultraviolet light."
"Glow-in-the-dark Sheep: Genetically Modified At Uruguay Lab [VIDEO]"
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"Scientists in Uruguay have genetically modified sheep to glow in the dark. The fluorescent sheep are a world first, the scientists report."
"Green-glowing monkeys have green-glowing babies"
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"Japanese researchers have genetically engineered monkeys whose hair roots, skin and blood glow green under a special light, and who have passed on their traits to their offspring, the first time this has been achieved in a primate"
"Glowing cats shed light on Aids"
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"Cats that have been genetically modified to glow in the dark are being used to gain insights into Aids."
"Green pig gives birth to glowing piglets"
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"China sees results as progress toward growing organs for human transplant"
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[@MajorMystery]

Oh my gosh its like shiny pokemon but real

[@killerthunder15]

i...i want to glow....

[@ItsSkylah]

you should have asked your parents before you were born

[@killerthunder15]

@@ItsSkylah damn why didnt i think of that

[@krisk4114]

We can now alter our dna after were born

[@MistaSCARY]

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[@char.yippee]

UMMMMMMMMMM

[@alexandermtj655]

They isolated the specific Gen which code is responsible for the production of the GFP and integrated this Gen into the animals so their body would produce this protein. :)

[@HaloWolf102]

I want a Fucking glowing kitten now xD

[@KorvenKorvsson]

James Mitchell Yeah that would be cool except for the fucking part ;)

[@tracilombardi5000]

KorvenKorvsson IKR I WAN5 ONE RIGHT NAO!

[@bleuthoot]

Glowing pets will be handy at night: you won't fall over them when you are searching something in the dark. (Maybe you can use the pet as "flashlight")

[@devinbelin7574]

as long as it dont hurt the animals im cool

[@868edgar]

It doesn't change anything other than the fact they glow now, it's done even before they are born so they are not harmed

[@alcs-s5q]

Aww

[@DzinkyDzink]

+Edgar “Foxtopus” Quek Wouldn't that make them an easy prey and compromise their survivability?

[@868edgar]

Nick Dzink Only in the wild but this procedure would most likely only be for domesticated animals. If some escaped into the wild they would most likely be killed off quickly. Having glowing animals In the wild could make for an interesting urban legend though.

[@rambler1234567]

+Edgar “Foxtopus” Quek Genetically modified animals cannot reproduce due to a phenomenon called Haldane's Rule

[@Seeker]

Glowing Animals! Because Why Not? With glowing stuff being all the rage these days, we took a look into what it takes to get animals illuminating!

[@MalkhutSefirah]

What is the point of science if not to make shit glow in the dark?

[@deseraewest3404]

Hallo

[@jonjam5746]

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[@deseraewest3404]

Did you guys,even check to see why?They are doing this?Like maybe Google it and do some research. Peace...

[@gwkowe]

Glowing animals would be like shiny Pokémon

[@sepheroth885]

Scientists have finally perfected this and created Dream lights™!

[@lazytongue8405]

Pray for humanity.

[@Hobypyrocom]

do more research on the glowing plants pls. will the light they emit interfere with the life cycle of the plant, with the photosynthesis?

[@TFBCorporation]

Anyone here from food theory?

[@nltptotrake8195]

Hello, i'm a french student in a american-french high school and i'm working on a project for the french exam in the Y11. I would like to know if i could use one of your image, it's the glowing sheep. I'll use this image for a non-commercial project of course.

[@sirblobocus]

Who needs night lights when you can glow! :D

[@aardfay]

Nop. That's not what I said. It's more ethical to test on humans who volunteer, or on criminals, THAN on animals who can't even give consent and who are built way too differently.

[@TransgressiveInkgirl]

I feel like the research being done with the genetic modification is definitely valid and needed, but I do feel concern for the state of the animal's health as well. I don't feel like messing with their DNA can be considered harmless.

[@MistaSCARY]

Can’t have it both ways. This is satanic agenda… mess with God’s perfect creation & make an abomination out of it. 👹💩🙅🏻‍♂️

[@dawnsattizahn4336]

Make my kitty glow!!!

[@VNSki]

There are already glowing pets. THe glowing zebra fish

[@nem3sis.yt_]

Only some fish and reptiles can glow that’s why we find this fascinating bc if animals like cats sheeps and monkeys can glow that means probably humans can too and it also help fighting of diseases and we all know that fish exists don’t worry we are not dumb 😂

[@GreatPirateSolomon42]

On the one hand I don't know if making glowing designer pets is very ethical, but then, on the other hand, is it any different than selectively breeding labradoodles and stuff like that? But, as far as the use for actual medical research, its awesome and all for it.

[@austinfoucher6449]

I'll buy a glowing kitten foreal

[@atheistleopard618]

now i want to glow in the dark..ffs...

[@wesmednardhyppolite1680]

cancer has no cure and you making stuff glow good job

[@stonegolem2001]

+west hyppolite say what you want i want a glowing cat

[@48Chimes]

+west hyppolite do you even know what cancer is scientifically? o.o

[@wesmednardhyppolite1680]

Raul P. Yes

[@Terror0619]

west hyppolite cancer does have a cure. They just won't reveal it because cancer makes the government, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies to much money

[@spiritualdimension6669]

Cure is already there

[@koubun02]

I'd love glowing pets! They would be fun!

[@2awesome292]

Cats' reaction to laser pointers... cats's reaction to glowing cats...

[@flyinghakusai]

I feel a little skeptical about the state of the animal's health though, even though they say it's okay. I would think bioluminescence takes a lot of unnecessary energy and possibly shorten the animal's life span or cause other unknown health problems.

[@kevinruijs3865]

Can i please be treated so i glow in the dark

[@retrorouge9513]

Sorry your out of luck your not an embryo.

[@annonomus1439]

@@retrorouge9513 or is he

[@solareiusdeiu]

we would be able to in the future. but not with this technique

[@TKaxemurderer]

I would want to glow under UV...awesome rave stuff right there! lol

[@doubleoof7907]

Can't wait to engineer my hair to glow yellow when I'm angry

[@Elround4]

That's an interesting idea. Could this be used with tissue engineering I wounder? You might also be able to get them via safe contacts that glow and cybernetic eyes like in Cyberpunk 2020, if you live long enough and technology becomes sufficiently advanced within your lifetime.

[@winproduction7585]

now 2023

[@crazylemon4]

GLOWING GRASS! :o

[@titaniumdiveknife]

I would like to glow in the dark through my whole body, then i could walk around naked helping people with their homework.

[@jameszhang7780]

Thanks Bro for helping me with my Homework👍🏼👍🏼👊🏼

[@Firetiger93]

Screw glow in the dark, I want a tail :)

[@user-fx2uz4yq6p]

Wtf

[@jod125]

Can someone make a glowing person!? That's be kind of cool.

[@hasoon1657]

That will be creepy if my cat was glowing in the dark

[@inuyasha1389]

What about glowing spiders 😈

[@tammybrinegar2098]

Every thing humans tamper with they ..... Never mind.

[@lyubomirdimov7084]

Make me green dog!!!

[@squigglyMC]

glowball i choose you! *meow* use glow attack *opponent has fainted due to cuteness*

[@genunsaved5441]

Their is already "designer" glowing fish for sale they don't do anything that any other fish does except glow and they come in all sorts of colors

[@GrimTheCrow]

Ooohhh... Shiny animals! They are rare so I have to catch them... Sucks if they run away though.

[@mischiefcalled592]

*Playing with kitten, then suddenly the power goes out, but your cat starts to glow.* "Science whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?!"

[@canids]

We have been playing around with the gene pool of animals and plants for years. I think we are going to see big problems if we continue down this road. They said thalidomide was safe too.

[@Saimeren]

Where is Anthony now? I know he left Dnews a while back, but I never knew where he ended up. Is he still "doing science"?

[@spencer66661]

Already available in china where they have no or very loose regulations on GMOs

[@CptDepressing]

I know about he cloning thing. What I meant was (and I'm gonna over-simplify it here) "Oh, hey. This video talks about glow-in-the-dark stuff. You know what would be cool? Glow in the dark tattoo ink!" Anything we use currently to make things glow is 1) temporary and 2) toxic. We don't have glow in the dark tattoo ink. Maybe this could somehow be used to do it.

[@Poeticbagel]

These aren't wild animals, though. They were raised in captivity, and they're still in captivity. The glow isn't going to harm them, and no one's going to try and do it on a wild animal.

[@StormiidaeBlogspot]

You're way behind here. Black light responsive zebra danios and freshwater angelfish are just two fish species that have been brought to the novelty pet market.

[@Poeticbagel]

Relax man, making animals glow isn't harming them, and a lot of the stuff talked about here could easily be incredibly beneficial to humanity.

[@loorthedarkelf8353]

I want a glow-in-a-dark cat.

[@inkheartfan1]

You are forgetting one thing though. They will only glow under a black light. So it has no effect on cats hiding.

[@blitzxrr]

So that's where the kid that glows from the Lorax came from..

[@kindpotato]

Is it really genetically modifying them if they used a protein?

[@SlugHatchet]

They genetically modified them to create the protein.

[@kindpotato]

oh that's cool

[@Wolfshot22]

I want a glowing kitten

[@AdvancedSoul]

Night time, cat jumps on my lap, lights the book for me; that, would make me a Happy Man.

[@georgecataloni4720]

Yes. Also, we should seriously evaluate what exact reason humans deserve rights and gauge which animals pass or fail. Being alive cannot be the only reason.

[@randomgirlxrulz]

BEST. IDEA. EVER.

[@AzKam84]

I don't actually feel that freedom of choice applies here as I don't think weather or not animals should glow is even our choice to make. Mother Nature has already made her choice, and mama always knows best.

[@massageman1979]

A glowing human with the ability to turn it on and off

[@iseealavalamp]

I wonder how hard it is to sleep when your eyelids glow in the dark.

[@MaMahmod]

does glowing plant need sun light for photosynthesis?

[@CptDepressing]

Normally I hate the idea of a tattoo, but one that glows might be pretty cool.

[@wer44able]

But wouldn't it be really annoying if you're trying to get to sleep at night and everything around you glows??

[@luxferrewolf7629]

I want a glowing embryo, then make it where it never forms a baby so i just have this awesome jar filled with a glowing human egg thing.

[@TyPeRHSDT]

Remember those cats glow in clear UV light, white light diminishes the glow visibility.

[@IsaraZeev]

Glowing animals for sale are already happening. There was a store that was selling glowing mice, however they shut down, not sure why...

[@cotes42]

A glowing cat would be fantastic so I wouldn't worry about accidentally stepping on it in the night. Though a glowing cat essentially nullifies it's night hunting abilities though.

[@vgamesx1]

glowing animals would be sooo useful, how many times have you walked around your dark house to strain your eyes to look for movement or trip over one? now if they glowed in the dark you'd always be able to know where they are, plus wouldn't it be cool to see a glowing kitty across the hall staring back at you?

[@brownshoeproductions]

I totally agree with everything you're saying except the idea that cats and monkeys lack consciousness... :)

[@kokocipher]

glowing animals as pets should be considered as animal abuse.

[@thatnoobnextdoor]

i want my dog to have this. you know what i want this inject me with this stuff.

[@Berelore]

GFP implantation is gonna be the "hello world" program of biology.

[@KensExotics]

We also have glowing mice. These could easily take off in the pet trade but then you have to deal with the crazies at Peta and HSUS trying to halt these efforts (they are already a big enough problem for normal animal breeders and brokers, like me). We are do have gen modified FISH called Glo-Fish being sold now.

[@p.j9102]

Yea I got some and they make a great bait. It's not cost effective to sell them or farm them for that purpose but they really do produce amazing results

[@MichaelSHartman]

Multicolored bioluminescent fish are an aquarium novelty.

[@Nenkos]

But, their brains aren't complicated enough to have consciousness and the protein doesn't "hurt" them in any way. If we can label diseases that occur in humans but in animals, we can do research on them easier, saving human lives.

[@MissAppleicious]

I want a glowing fish - fish night light :)

[@CodyOsten]

MissAppleicious Petco sells those.

[@tacocat1766]

The momma cat looked so tired

[@greattriplehdx]

So we haven't discovered a cure for cancer but we know how to make Cats glow, Okay...

[@retrorouge9513]

But this was done to cure diseases like cancer. . .

[@TELEVISIBLE]

we have cure for cancer , if you can afford it

[@MonkeyDonk69]

did u watch the video they did it cuz it helps them to find a cure for cancer

[@TheKrisiscool99]

They already sell glowing zebra fish tetras

[@MalkhutSefirah]

A glow in the dark cat? Great. Just what I need. Now she won't have to go to the effort of poking me in the face, to wake me up in the middle of the night.

[@MrGuy822]

is it weird if i want my shit to glow?

[@CookingwithQ]

there's already available glowing zebrafish

[@FizzySizzle]

This sounds like some Fallout 4 type of animal. I'll take a kitten!

[@syntheogenesis01]

Can i use E.coli bacteria and not virus?(i mean CRISPR technology)

[@Tetra84]

cool and all, but it would be cooler if it could glow in the dark under its own power without the help of UV.

[@Nenkos]

Nevermind, didn't realize you meant the Leanback.

[@JuanJopZam]

they didnt "create" these animals they modified them,since the animals came to be as a result of evolution

[@jctoad]

My cat died of FIV. Only thing that glowed on him was his eyes.

[@breadman32398]

i want a glow in the dark kid.

[@MrHogslice]

A glowing dog would be cool for search and rescue.

[@ruolbu]

Humor without borders! *battlecry*

[@TravisHeinze]

There has to be side effects to this. Those animals probably have health problems in some way.

[@nicoruppert4207]

You really seem to be an expert on biology

[@AllexRadu]

Glowing cat, that wound be so creepy. FYI: That cat couldn't catch mice anymore.

[@MaddysinLeigh]

That's why my retainer and retainer case are glow in the dark.

[@stevenjarvis7454]

so where do I sign up to make myself glow in the dark? lol!!

[@2BG.23]

Do they have to be under black light?

[@tabernie]

The scientists are searching for the immortality protein.

[@Nenkos]

You are against labeling animal DNA with GFP? Why?

[@1stroxa]

are the going to make glow in the dark cheetahs?

[@Drarack]

I imagined it'd take some time before you stop getting scared every time you see your pet in the dark. Especially if it's a big place.

[@TheEmilNiklas]

I'm not going to have children before they can glow in the dark.