Fluorescent feet: These monkeys inherited a genetic modification that makes them glow (insets) under ultraviolet light.
Credit: Nature, 2009
New publications, experiments and breakthroughs in biomedicine--and what they mean.
Glowing Monkeys
Primates pass a fluorescence gene to their offspring.
Source: "Generation of transgenic non-human primates with germline transmission"
Erika Sasaki, Hiroshi Suemizu, et al.
Nature 459: 523-527
Results: Scientists transferred a gene derived from jellyfish into marmoset monkeys, causing them to produce a protein that makes them glow green. The monkeys then passed the gene for the fluorescent protein to their offspring, which glow as well.
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