Lions, Tigers, and Glow in the Dark Cats, OH MY!

As if glow-in-the-dark rabbits were not enough, now we have glow-in-the-dark cats!  Mr. Green Genes, a six month old orange tabby, is the result of a genetic experiment done by the Audubon Center for Research of Endangered Species.  The transgenic cat is the first fluorescent cat in the United States. Much like Alba, the transgenic [...]

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Nobel Prizes and Glow in the Dark Rabbits

Congratulations to Osamu Shimomura of the the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachussets; Martin Chalfie of Columbia University; and Roger Tsien of University of California at San Diego for being the 2008 recipients of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry! All three scientists were chosen based on their research into green fluorescent protein (GFP), first [...]

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CSI: Long Island

So, on a really cool note, Long Island just received over $500,000 in federal grant money to upgrade police DNA labs. Yes, lab rats like Greggo around LI may now rejoice! The breakdown of the money is $245,794 for Nassau and $280,794 for Suffolk. The money from the Department of Justice must be used to [...]

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