Once again, South Korean scientists have made cloning headlines. This time around, though, it's not about cloned stem cells -- nope, it's about cloned glow-in-the-dark cats. Sounds ridiculous, maybe, but the scientists claim that what they've done could change medicine.
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Mice aren't afraid of cats because they're bigger, have sharper teeth, and are natural predators. While that would be reasonable, the real factor is a genetic hardwiring to be terrified at the scent of cats. Japanese scientists, in yet another effort to create super-creatures that will doom us all, have changed that. "Mice are naturally terrified of cats, and usually panic or flee at the smell of one. But mice with certain nasal cells removed through genetic engineering didn't display any fear," said Ko Kobayakawa who leads a research team at Tokyo University.
My cat just had the last bath he's ever getting.
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Undergraduates from 59 countries are gathering at MIT for the 2007 International Genetically Engineered Machine competition, or iGEM Jamboree, to showcase the designer biological systems they have spent all summer building.
These are the up-and-coming practitioners of the hot new field of synthetic biology displaying their finest work.
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