Cloning, this time with black-lights.
One of the reasons I enjoy being awake all night is because I am a total news junkie. And by “total news junkie”, I certainly mean “real news only instead of that pap that CNN pretends to pass off as news” which means I mostly consume BBC World Service on WHYY’s overnight programs with increasing regularity.
I also stay up all night, listening, because I learn things.
For example, we have the noted South Korean scientist who is begging for forgiveness because he didn’t actually clone human embryos, although he did manage to clone a dog. (What? You missed that story when it was first reported in May of 2004, then again in Nov. of 2005 on into Dec. of 2005?) Nothing too exciting there; a mundane case of a power-hungry scientist lying about his outputs, then blaming it on someone else. (In this case, he’s blaming it on the workers at the hospital where the embryos were cultured for not letting him know that he had, indeed, failed. If only someone had TOLD ME I’D LIED AND FAKED MY RESULTS, dammit! ::facepalm::)
Here’s the other thing I learned last night: Some other Asian dudes have cloned glow-in-the-dark pigs. I’m loving this statement:
“Others have bred partially fluorescent pigs before. But the researchers insist the three pigs they have produced are better.They are the only ones that are green from the inside out. Even their heart and internal organs are green, they say.”
Because it’s really important for my pig to have a glow-in-the-dark spleen.
There you go. All the cloning news that’s currently fit to print.
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