This is rather interesting! South Korean scientists have cloned cats by manipulating a fluorescent protein gene, a procedure which could help develop treatments for human genetic diseases. However, a side-effect is that the cloned cats glow in the dark when exposed to ultraviolet beams. The cats were born in January and February. One was stillborn while two others grew to become adults. The technology can also help clone endangered animals like tigers, leopards and wildcats.
“The ability to produce cloned cats with the manipulated genes is significant as it could be used for developing treatments for genetic diseases and for reproducing model (cloned) animals suffering from the same diseases as humans,” a scientist added.
Maybe we could get a couple of these for Christmas and stick then on a roof or something!
