In case your puppy/accessory isn’t as cool as your neighbours’, here’s a way to make sure you have the snazziest pooch in Apgujeong:
USA Today reports that Korean scientists have adapted the DNA of a cloned dog so that it will glow red under ultraviolet light: geneticists have been combining cloned cells with a protein from the DNA of a sea anemone’s, which glows red under black light. Other scientists have been playing with jellyfish proteins which glow green, and in Taiwan, you can actually buy glow-in-the-dark fish….(or glow in the dark boshintang, to start out your night of Disco bowling, baby!)
Seoul National University’s first cloned dog was called SNUppy (get it? Snuppy? Like Snoopy?), and this one’s called Ruppy, because it looks ruby red, and it’s a puppy. Korea continues to lead the world in cloned animals with dumb names.
In science, this is a useful thing, because it can test whether genetic modifications have worked, facilitating their research, and dogs like this might be used to study diseases that affect both humans and dogs. On the market, Paris Hilton probably just had a conniption of want for a glow in the dark rat-dog.
Glow in the dark cats on CNN:
28/04/2009 at 11:27 am Permalink
That’s…kinda cool, actually.
28/04/2009 at 12:57 pm Permalink
About freaking time!!! I’m tired of eating the normal boshintang that I can’t see in a dark room.
28/04/2009 at 1:00 pm Permalink
yeah, man! It’s time for DISCO BOSHINTANG! Wish I’d thought of that before. Would have made a great headline. In fact, I’m changing it. Thanks 3gyup!
28/04/2009 at 3:34 pm Permalink
Actually I think that someone just wanted a pet from the movie “Tron.”
28/04/2009 at 10:57 pm Permalink
SNUppy? Since Koreans easily confuse Ps and Fs, they could’ve meant SNUffy, as in snuff, as in kill the cute puppy for boshintang.