With cloning techniques, South Korean researchers created the dog glow. Yonhap news agency reported that the discovery someday may help drug discovery Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
The research team from Seoul National University, said genetically modified beagle named Tegon and was born in 2009 can emit green light when exposed to fluorescent light and were given antibiotic doxycycline ultravioiet. The research team has completed tests on the dog for two years. The ability of emitting light that can be enabled or disabled by adding the drug into the dog food.
"Making Tegon opens new horizons for the injected genes to create a glowing dog can be replaced with human genes that trigger disease," said Lee Byeong-chun, principal investigator of the research.
He said the dog was created using somatic cell nuclear transfer technology, such as those used to make the varsity team's first cloned dog in the world, Snuppy, whose name in 2005.
Dogs are modified to show such symptoms can help methods of healing diseases that attack humans. Animals were chosen because dogs and humans can be exposed to 268 the same disease.
The findings were published in international journals, Genesis. The researchers conducted research for four years at a cost of nearly U.S. $ 3 million to create a dog and do the necessary verification tests.*** [REUTERS | TJANDRA | KORAN TEMPO 3609]
The research team from Seoul National University, said genetically modified beagle named Tegon and was born in 2009 can emit green light when exposed to fluorescent light and were given antibiotic doxycycline ultravioiet. The research team has completed tests on the dog for two years. The ability of emitting light that can be enabled or disabled by adding the drug into the dog food.
"Making Tegon opens new horizons for the injected genes to create a glowing dog can be replaced with human genes that trigger disease," said Lee Byeong-chun, principal investigator of the research.
He said the dog was created using somatic cell nuclear transfer technology, such as those used to make the varsity team's first cloned dog in the world, Snuppy, whose name in 2005.
Dogs are modified to show such symptoms can help methods of healing diseases that attack humans. Animals were chosen because dogs and humans can be exposed to 268 the same disease.
The findings were published in international journals, Genesis. The researchers conducted research for four years at a cost of nearly U.S. $ 3 million to create a dog and do the necessary verification tests.*** [REUTERS | TJANDRA | KORAN TEMPO 3609]
