Green with envy?

check out the picture :smiley:
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/01/12/taiwan.pig.reut/index.html

TAIPEI, Taiwan (Reuters) – Taiwan, home to the world’s first transgenic glowing fish, has successfully bred fluorescent green pigs that researchers hope will boost the island’s stem cell research, a professor said.
By injecting fluorescent green protein into embryonic pigs, a research team at the island’s leading National Taiwan University managed to breed three male transgenic pigs, said professor Wu Shinn-Chih of the university’s Institute and Department of Animal Science and Technology.
“There are partially fluorescent green pigs elsewhere, but ours are the only ones in the world that are green from inside out. Even their hearts and internal organs are green,” Wu said on Thursday.
The transgenic pigs, commonly used to study human diseases, would help researchers monitor and trace changes of the tissues during the physical development, Wu said.
In 2003, a Taiwan company began selling the world’s first genetically engineered fish, sparking protests by environmentalists who said the fluorescent green fish posed a threat to the earth’s ecosystem.
In neighboring South Korea, disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk apologized on Thursday for wrongdoing at his laboratory, but hinted at a conspiracy to discredit him and said he was blinded by the zeal of advancing stem cell studies. (Full story)
An investigation panel at Seoul National University said on Tuesday that a team led by Hwang faked two landmark papers on embryonic stem cells, but did produce the world’s first cloned dog.

Re: Green with envy?

Soon the phrase "to have a green thumb" will mean more than merely being good at gardening....

totally irrelevant but…

the term ‘green with envy’ came about a long time ago. people used to spend a lot of time making their gardens pretty and all. they’d look at their neighbor’s turf..and see that it was greener, and nicer. they’d turn GREEN WITH ENVY!

:cb: isnt that the raaandomest thing ever?! i read it in 1 of my fav. books. ‘princess bride’. it makes sense..=) i know its irrelevant to the flurescent pig and all…but :omg: