South Korean Scientists Create $3 Million Glow-in-the-Dark Dog
- Posted on July 30, 2011 at 8:21am by
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Meet Tegon. She’s a beagle and she lives in South Korea. Oh, and she’s been genetically engineered to glow fluorescent green when under ultraviolet light.
Researchers from South Korea have used cloning techniques to create a dog that will let off an impressive green glow when a doxycycline antibiotic is slipped into its food. Without the drug, the dog’s superhero powers will fade.
The team from Seoul National University made Tegon using the same somatic cell nuclear transfer technology that they used to create to the world’s first cloned dog, Snuppy, in 2005.
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“The creation of Tegon opens new horizons since the gene injected to make the dogglow can be substituted with genes that trigger fatal human diseases,” the news agency quoted lead researcher Lee Byeong-chun as saying.
He said the dog was created using the somatic cell nuclear transfer technology that the university team used to make the world’s first cloned dog, Snuppy, in 2005.
The scientist said that because there are 268 illnesses that humans and dogs have in common, creating dogs that artificially show such symptoms could aid treatment methods for diseases that afflict humans.
The latest discovery published in ‘Genesis’, an international journal, took four years of research with roughly 3.2 billion won ($3 million) spent to make the dog and conduct the necessary verification tests, Yonhap said.
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Comments (127)
Micmac
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 12:25pmThis may be step one, but what is step 15, in the “development” of the horrific path?
Report Post »Vickie Dhaene
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:17pmGOD help us all. This is very scary.
Report Post »Rice Water
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 6:18pmUhh, it’s a dog that glows in the dark. The dog dosn’t seem to care. I fail to see what the problem is here.
Report Post »Consentiondum
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 6:55pmSo now that they’ve done this to a dog all of the sudden we are all concerned? They‘ve been doing this to your food for so long that it is nearly impossible to buy a vegetable that isn’t genetically modified in some way. But is this horrible? No… it seems it could pave the way for beneficial medical discoveries.
Report Post »OUTRIDER WRITER
Posted on August 1, 2011 at 8:06am@RiceWater
Report Post »The 9,999 dogs that died so that one could glow in the dark undoubtedly have a different opinion.
Cerealface
Posted on August 1, 2011 at 9:26amDude, it’s a clone. 9,999 dogs didn’t die. 1 Dog died, again and again. That’s if dogs even died. Dur
Report Post »notsofast
Posted on August 1, 2011 at 1:38pmmm. didn’t we recently read about the animal/human stem cell technology in merry ole England. Great imagine the future if you will, just a moment, green glowing half, dog, fish, and half human for certain labor forces throughout the new world order. Kind of cool Sounds like a sci fi book and movie to me. Stranger than fiction.
Report Post »Major Infidel
Posted on August 1, 2011 at 10:33pmIt’s a catch 22. I can see the horror and I can see the miracles. So what do we do? Nothing. Theres nothing you can do. These types of things are inevitable and will become more prevalent as technology advances.
Report Post »We better just come to terms with this sort of thing.
I can remember when the big technology scare was the apple 2c and the computing age, how it was going to ruin the world, etc..
I guess that statement can apply to either opinion, whether your an optimist or pessimist. Whether you see the internet as a useful library of information and opportunity, or a dark underworld of porn, scam artists and job eliminators.
Opinions vary and niether are right or wrong.
Pastor Ray
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 3:53pmYeah but does it’s poo still stink? If it stops that I’m all for it!
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 12:10pmUGH! Cruelty so often happens with a moral excuse.
Everyone and everything dies eventually. And so S. Korean Scientists you’ve accomplished what?
“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”
Report Post »Albert Einstein
churchlady99
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 6:52pmLove this quote, but is it Einstein? Thought it was Albert Schweitzer but I could be wrong. Good one nevertheless.
Report Post »SovereignSoul
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 11:52pmDefinitely, Albert Schweitzer not Albert Einstein. I know, I know. It‘s just a typo not a mistake and we’re rude and obnoxious for pointing it out!
Report Post »Conservative_Scientist
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 1:28amWell. As it said right in the article you clearly didn’t read, they created a testbed for human illnesses.
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 10:25amCruelty? I’d rather be this dog than any of the billions of farm animals that will slaughtered this year.
Report Post »Speakin'mymind
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 12:07pmIs there no end to the INSANITY! Just plain cruel! Ignorance knows no bounds. What kind of crazy world is this anyway! We bail South Korea out and this is what they do with the money we didn’t have in the 1st place??? Just ridiculous! Help your people South Korea! Where is PETA when you need them! Shees!
Report Post »Conservative_Scientist
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 1:33amCruel? What cruelty. The dog glows under an ultraviolet light if fed a specific antibiotic. The antibiotic nor the glow injures the dog, so where is the cruelty? Grow up. Nut jobs that fly off the handle at the tiniest thing are what’s ruining this country.
PETA can’t hear you, they’re busy cleaning all the corpses out of their meat-lockers. Oh, what’s that? You didn’t know that part about PETA? Do your homework.
Report Post »ryguy1985
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 11:55amWOW people, all they did was make it glow (and it’s not even perminent). You all make it sound like they gave it an extra head or limb, or made it into some deformed thing! Calm down!
Report Post »Christabel
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:26pmThey all watch way too much TV and/or paranoid. Read one article and suddenly everyone’s an expert.
Report Post »Of course no one here will inquire as to how it may be used for research before emotional panic.
Conservative_Scientist
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 1:35amI blame the rap music.
Conservative_Scientist
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 1:39amToo true. And people are surprised that our political system is so messed up when even relatively tame things like this incite such divided responses. A shame.
I blame the rap music.
Report Post »affinnity
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 2:40pmI refuse to argue with anyone that has the courage to use the name CONSERVATIVE_SCIENTIST.
Report Post »Robert DeBeaux
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 7:36pmThe most dangerous person in the world is a person with NO morality. What is next? A dog that cowers when rebuked? A animal that stops fighting when a special gene is activated? You could be that animal.
Report Post »Just because is seems harmless to a puppy, does not give it justification. What if the experiment was on your child, would you allow it?
I would not. I would endorse it ONLY if a person consented to have the procedure done.
We must protect the innocent. That includes puppies.
darlenekay
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 11:47amIs there a reason for this stupidity? Does it serve some medical purpose? I wouldn’t want my dog to glow.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 12:01pmWhen you’re driving at night you can more easily spot a glowing dog. That sounds like a practical application to me.
Report Post »Servant Of YHVH
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 12:20pmThey claim that the practical medical application is this. “The scientist said that because there are 268 illnesses that humans and dogs have in common, creating dogs that artificially show such symptoms could aid treatment methods for diseases that afflict humans”
This is the claim that they are using for justification.
Report Post »fertlmind
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 12:31pm@votebush
Report Post »Dude,… you are a genius!!!!
What liberal wouldn’t appreciate a glow in the dark dog that keeps them from running over it with their electric cars!!!!
I want my cat and my kids to glow in the dark too!
Maybe we can get liberals to glow when they vote democratic in 2012 so we all know who the idiots are that voted for Obamma again!
The uses for this technology is endless!!!
Chris
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:15pmIf you read the article they are hoping to use the techniques that they learned to make the dog glow t insert other things into dog’s genes – particularly, they can trigger diseases that both dogs and humans have in common. If you can reliably induce a disease in a test animal it is a lot easier to study and, in time, eliminate.
Report Post »ohiochili
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 10:29pmThink of all the broken legs saved by not tripping over the dog on the way to the john in the dark of night.
Think our friends in S. Korea devise a way to make the messiah glow when he tells a lie? We could cut the energy usage of half the country!
Report Post »corbecket
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 12:04pm“I wouldn’t want my dog to glow.”
You might not, but I would. Think of the advantages! If he’s outside at night, you can find him easier. If he’s sleeping in the living room, you won’t step on him when you walk through in the dark. He can find his own food at night. He’s less likely to get run over at night. If he sleeps on the foot of your bed, you won’t even need a nightlight when you get up to use the bathroom. If you have kids, stick him in their room. They won’t need a nightlight either.
You won’t have to take a flashlight, when you take him for a walk at night.
You could get him in designer colors. Basset Brown. Retriever Red. Beagle Blue. Well, I could go on, but you get the idea.
What should we name him?
Report Post »redbone007
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 11:43amWhy?
Report Post »IHateBeckIsNuts
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 11:41amAnimal research of any sort that harms the animals is wrong. Also, there’s always the question about where this could lead some day. Is it possible this research could ultimately result in human testing?? That’s a scary thought. Conjures up thoughts about Hitler and Eugenics.
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 11:43amAmen brother, this also reminds me of all those nice horror movies that started off with so called inocent genetic manipulation and ended badly, very badly. When they do open pandora’s box, we will all suffer.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 12:00pmThe whole reason we test animals is because we can’t test humans. Will this lead to human testing? Probably not since this is the replacement for human testing.
Report Post »LouisianaPatriot
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 12:05pmEugenics is exactly what popped into my mind. At birth, some kind of genetic manipulator is administered via vaccine, possibly only in certain populations. Sometime later, as experiments are done to gather statistics and create a more pure human, those genetic markers will be evaluated, without the knowledge of the person, because they can be gathered by way of a simple saliva sample, or hair follicle, etc. I love science, but I also know that we all had better watch out. The bad guys are here, and they are on the move.
Report Post »DrFrost
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 12:57pmWould you experiment on a dog to save your mother? What about to save a thousand children? What about 100,000,000 children?
Causing animals pain and grief for no reason is wrong. Causing them pain and grief in order to save millions is, in my opinion, not wrong. I think most people will draw the line in a different place somewhere between those two extremes but if you can’t condone animal experimentation that causes any ill effects on the animal… I think you’re in a very small minority and, furthermore, I think your position is untenable.
Report Post »SovereignSoul
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 12:05amIf you feel strongly against animal testing, I’m sure you back up that conviction by refusing to participate in any type of antibiotic treatments, immunizations for you or your children against polio, whooping cough or diphtheria as well as the thousands of other medical advancements that have come at the expense of animal pain and death.
Report Post »pattybbb1
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 12:28amI don’t know if it hurts the animal but it feels very, very wrong to me.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 11:32am28 Days Later, anyone?
Report Post »mcmeador
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 11:28amThey probably just poured green highlighter all over the dog and turned on a black light.
Report Post »SovereignSoul
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 12:07amI wonder if I could get a $3,000,000 grant for doing that to my daughter’s cat!
Report Post »mcmeador
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 2:38amThis is the United States! You could probably get more than that!
Report Post »kindling
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 11:14am“the gene injected to make the dogglow can be substituted with genes that trigger fatal human diseases”
Report Post »AND JUST WHY WOULD WE WANT TO DO THIS?
VoteBushIn12
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 11:38amSo you can see how the Dogs immune systems or other genes combat human disease. Then when you identify how the Dog survives you can try and replicate that process in humans…
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 12:51pmscience has been doing ‘pointless’ research since the beginning. LASER’s were no-application research in the 1960′s, LASER’s are fundamental to any disk reader. Basic research is necessary in the pursuit of knowledge; APPLICATION of this research needs to be watched, this is certain…research however is vital.
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 11:06amHope they spay and neuter these abominations at birth? hatching? release from petri dish?
lol
seriously, we need to be REALLY careful these things don’t get out of labs – don’t forget africanized bees / killer bees and/or Monsanto corn and their ensuing patent claims!
Grr-assic park?
Purr-assic park?
Fur-assic park?
lol
Report Post »Jimbo
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 11:03amThis is why we have to watch out for Genetic engineering and cloning. Scientist playing God creating things that have no real purpose. Funny but this report troubles me.
Report Post »Chappy123
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 10:56amDumb A$$es. Quit messing with what God made perfect.
Report Post »GayDem4Beck
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 11:07amAnd this is how Resident Evil, Zombies, Dawn of the Dead, Omega Man, and the rest started. Humans playing with things they ought not to be messing with. No wonder the CDC has released info about Zombies in the last year.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 11:41amWhy do you think God made things perfect? Pull me one line from any biblical reference that says He made things “perfect”.
He gave man free reign on this planet and man is using it. GO SCIENCE
Report Post »TrailBlazer66
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:08pmAmen bro!
Report Post »ANTISOCIAL-IST
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 1:10amgenesis 1:4-25 among a multitude of others.
Report Post »VoteBushIn12
Posted on August 1, 2011 at 10:13pm@ANTISOCIAL-IST
I don’t see where He says it is “Perfect”. Perhaps one of your “multitude of others” will be more clear… Doubt it since I regularly read the bible and am pretty confident it doesn’t exist.
Report Post »ANTISOCIAL-IST
Posted on August 1, 2011 at 11:26pmvote: God does not have to express to you that He is perfect. He said what he made was good and that is perfect since God cannot be anything less considering He is God. duh.
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 10:54amThis is such a waste of time and money as far as I am concerned. Why don’t they worry more about North Korea and use that money to get more weapons and better protect themselves.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 12:43pmthis product may it the future cause the north K’s to glow in the dark, therefore great night time shooting.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 10:00amWant a cryptic reference to Koreans eating dogs, play the Adult Swim Games game Escape from Puppy Death Factory? When you reach the final boss fight, you‘ll know what I’m talking about.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 10:36amSo Adult Swim huh…I had a good feeling about lesbian packing hollow points!
Report Post »@ Coyote2
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 10:43amThe stupid a$$es.
Report Post »@ Coyote2
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 10:52amA Chinese eatery opened in our small town about a year ago. Haven’t seen a stray dog or cat since.
Report Post »Quencher
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:54amBig Deal !!—-So they spent millions to get a dog that they can see in the dark!
I have one that anyone can hear in the dark and cost me nothing! — How about that!!
Report Post »Deanna in Missouri
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 10:12amlmao- now that was funny.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:54amI don’t think Glow-in-the-Dark is the proper term. I don’t think this dog stores up energy to make itself glow. I think it just fluoresces in the immediate presence of a UV lamp. Turn off the UV source, and these dogs are just as dark as a non-geneticly molested dog.
Report Post »4X4in
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 1:58pmDid she say Molested! Now thats NEWS!
Report Post »nysparkie
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:47amI want a Beagle. I can hunt Rabbits at night and know where the Hound is.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 11:07amif you carry around a UV light and shine it on the dog after it’s consumed some drugs, then you will. otherwise.. nope. sounds like a waste of time and money. to each their own, i guess.
what are we going to do when they release their agressive, mutant, failure dogs on america?
Report Post »michaelmoron
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:34amYou have got to those Asian scientists. They have discovered a way to recycle our feces for our consumption. I am sure NWO reps. have already contacted them.
Report Post »quicker
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:44amThyey call it soilet brown
Report Post »michaelmoron
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:31amI hear Japan has a lot of glowing dogs running around !!!!
Report Post »piper60
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 10:31amIf Japan’s are glowing, they are also dying. Pretty sad.
Report Post »burr99
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:24amNow, if they can only create a pill that will make the presidents nose grow every time he says a lie…
Report Post »quicker
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:45amBy now it would reach to the moon
Report Post »Secessionista
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 11:37amAnd then we would finally have a space program once again!
Report Post »TrailBlazer66
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:11pmHAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaa…A quadruple LOL!!!! and don’t forget First Hog, the baboon’s mate.
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:23amAll of the cancer patients will be thrilled to hear the good news….
Report Post »Jackie Rogers, Jr.
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:10amI think it would have been a more practical use of funds to engineer day-glo dog doo
Report Post »quicker
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:05amHow long before they let the genie out of the box ,and make something that endangers life altogather,They don`t stop and think that just because they can maybe they shouldn`t.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:35am“The creation of Tegon opens new horizons since the gene injected to make the dogglow can be substituted with genes that trigger fatal human diseases,”
TRIGGER FATAL HUMAN DISEASES???? Do you think they’re thinking of killing off large numbers of people?
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:57am@Quicker:
It’s bottle, not box.
@Quicker & Loriann 12:
Report Post »The point is not to induce human diseases in humans, which would require doing so at of immediately after the point of conception. The point is to create lab animals with human diseases to test medical treatments for efficacy prior to use on real humans.
SovereignSoul
Posted on July 31, 2011 at 12:22amTechnically speaking, the genie was in a lamp. However, we never let the facts get in the way of a “good’ opinion around here. Smart, dumb, literate or illiterate: All are welcome. POST ON!
Report Post »ares338
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:04amKnowing Koreans, they are trying to create a better tasting dog!
Report Post »Highland
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:21amYou can‘t eat it if you can’t see it!
Report Post »Your Name Here
Posted on July 30, 2011 at 9:23amThe new Korean cookbook: 101 ways to wok your dog.
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