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Some fluorescent proteins do not cause animals to glow. So scientists wanted to find out why animals would have such proteins. ... The new research is the first evidence that these non-glowing proteins plays a role beyond brightness.
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news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090526-glowing...
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www.wettropics.gov.au/pa/pa_glowing.html
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Great, so we've got more glowing animals with the promise of help curing disease. Well hurry up and cure one already! I'm starting to think these "scientists" are just making glowing pets to bring home to their daughters.
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www.geekologie.com/2009/05/okay_another_day_another_glo...
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Although GFP can make glowing kitties (above), glowing bunnies, glowing monkeys and mice (below), it has far more important applications for medical research. The eye-catching protein is used as a visual tag, linked to other genes or cells that scientists are tinkering with.
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The animals pictured here (except for the last two) are bioluminescent. However, most of the images show the animal illuminated by a strobe, and not its bioluminescence. Many of the plankton, and especially the jellyfish, have beautiful colors, which are explained in the photo captions.
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www.lifesci.ucsb.edu/~biolum/organism/photo.html
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National Geographic has a gallery titled GLOWING ANIMALS: Pictures of Beasts Shining for Science, which includes pictures of animals that have been engineered to become fluorescent using Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) extracted from jellyfish, as well as animals that glow naturally for one reason or another.
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www.neatorama.com/2009/05/27/glowing-animals/
www.neatorama.com/2009/05/27/glowing-animals/
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Many animals possess UV vision and use it for foraging, navigation and sexual selection, Li explained. ... — And when females were in UV light and males were not, the males responded to the glowing females and began courting behavior, but 10 of the 12 females failed to respond.
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Glowing From Within ... Kac told ABC News he intended Alba's birth to spark a debate about the project itself, and about the practice of manipulating genes in animals for research. Then he hoped to adopt Alba and take her into his home with his wife and daughter.
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What makes animals glow? Some of them, like jellyfishes and scorpions, glow under ultraviolet lights because of naturally occurring proteins or other materials. Other animals, such as monkeys or puppies, glow because scientists ... The glowing mice in the photo above received DNA with the glowing protein from their father.
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