Glowing monkeys ‘to aid research’:
Jason Palmer
BBC
May 28, 2009
Genetically modified primates that glow green and pass the trait on to their offspring could aid the fight against human disease.
Though primates that make a glowing protein have been created before, these are the first to keep the change in their bloodlines.
Future modifications could lead to treatments for a range of diseases.
The “transgenic” marmosets, created by a Japanese team, have been described in the journal Nature.
The work raises a number of ethical questions about deliberately exposing a bloodline of animals to such diseases.
Scientists have managed to modify the genes of many living organisms in recent years, ranging from bacteria to mice."
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