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Scientists gave marmosets a gene that made their feet glow green, and one of the animals passed it along to its offspring — the first time that an added gene has been inherited by a monkey.
That's important because it opens the door to creating colonies of transgenic monkeys by breeding, which would be far simpler than the cumbersome process of making each animal from scratch by injecting a gene into an embryo.
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2...socialcomments
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Being CBC, I'm sure it's not entirely correct. If the glow is feet specific, the glowing gene was probably attached to a gene that is localized in the feet, otherwise, the entire monkey would glow under UV light. Still great news though
The comments on the CBC article makes me sad though
