This isn’t some inhumane magic trick. The rabbits are part of a genetic manipulation experiment, one that the researchers hope will shed some light on hereditary diseases and hopefully lead the way to producing drugs to help cure them. The embryos of the two green rabbits were injected with a fluorescent protein from jellyfish DNA, giving them the “glowing gene” that makes them green under a blacklight. The glowing effect is just to show that the genetic manipulation technique works, and in future experiments, researchers could inject beneficial DNA into the rabbits so that they might be used to produce medicine.
But for now, these bunnies just glow. “These rabbits are like a light bulb glowing, like an LED light all over their body,” Dr. Stefan Moisyadi from the University of Hawaii told the local KHON news station. “And on top of it, their fur is beginning to grow and the greenness is shining right through their fur. It’s so intense.”
via Gizmodo
