Frankly speaking till today, I used to believe that glow in the dark is exceptionally the prerogative of road signs, but my world has turned upside down after manipulations of South Korean scientists with a fluorescent protein gene. They have cloned cats that glow in the dark.

Glowing wasn’t main aim of scientists, it’s just a side-effect. Cats do glow in the dark while exposing to ultraviolet rays. The cloned cats look red fluorescent under ultraviolet beams while ordinary cats are green under the same beams. Actually, the cats don’t shine in the dark, only some parts of cats where fur cover is not thick glow in the dark.

So, scientists from Gyeongsang National University, succeeded to produce 3 cats with altered fluorescence protein (RFP) genes. It’s a great step in science for both further development of cloning (for example endangered animals) and genetic diseases treatment. Cats are Turkish Angoras and they were born in January and February.