Thursday, December 13, 2007

Walking night light

Researchers at Gyeongsang National University in Korea have taken the cloned cat, a technology that's been around for five years now, and created a florescent cloned kitty.

The research can be utilized in working with certain genetic diseases in animals and humans. They also believe it can help reproduce rare animals, such as tigers and wildcats, which are on the verge of extinction.

Copycat was the first cloned cat, born in 2002 at Texas A&M University. Kong Il-keun, the professor leading the Korean research team, cloned the first cat in Korea in 2004. His work has continued with the goal to clone animals for therapeutic research.

In the meantime, we have a whole new way to use a lampshade...

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