Glow in the Dark Cats

This might seem a little odd - and a little like someone has just done a pretty good photoshop job, but I promise this is all true! Scientists have actually "created" glow in the dark Cats, Monkeys and fish. In 2007 South Korean scientists inserted the glow in the dark gene then cloned these cats. The end result? Fluffy, florescent felines! They did this through taking samples of skin cells from Turkish Angora cats. They then used a virus to insert genetic instructions for making a red florescent protein. They put this altered nuclei back into the eggs for cloning. You might now be thinking - what's the point? Well, scientists are hoping that they could, eventually create laboratory animals with human genetic disorders - although this does of course, create a massive ethical issue!