Glowing Cat: Fluorescent Green Felines could help study of HIV

[programaster]

Great.

Like cats needed to be MORE creepy.

But let's face it. This is for the cats of drunk people.

[Hubbins29]

Met Poeschla in person after listening to him at a seminar. It is really interesting work. Restriction factors are not well known and work done on them helps us understand HIV better as a virus and could potentially lead to a treatment.

And for those that really don't get it, the only reason they glow is so you can pick out which cats have your gene of interest. If you want a glowing animal I suggest Glofish

[SuperKenny720]

it would be cool to have a glow in the dark kid.

[puppydays808]

fake

[anne12468]

they look like mice at first

[dewdroppedrose]

It's real. Scientists can turn on genes in some animals that can make them glow. It's like the gene in parts of the firefly's body. Those genes can be turned on in other organisms.

[moonvapors]

This is disgusting. Animals do not belong to humans to do with what they want. We are torturing animals in the name of science and that is disgusting. Human beings are not the most important things on this planet despite what they think. We are a virus that is destroying the planet for our own greedy needs and we need to stop now. We need to stop all experiments on living creatures.

[20ZZ20]

@moonvapors Okay, so if a man had your mother at gunpoint and a mouse at gunpoint, and said "which one will I kill" you would choose the mouse? Or if your grandfather was lying in bed with painful cancer, and told you "you are the only one who can do this, inject cancerous cells into this mouse and I will be cured" you would decline?

[poot72]

It is unfortunate that this is necessary to advance in medical research. A necessary evil.

[EternaWolf]

So you're saying that the government stopped funding NASA, but they use our tax dollars to make glowing kittens???? -_-

[cm79ca]

walking night lights....

[MisMinTin]

fake and gay

[barbotas1]

@MisMinTin is not fake i

[xxxElegatorxxx]

Interesting. Where can I read about the research and results?

[victorianoddities]

I could see people going out and getting HIV just so they could get the glow treatment

[xxxElegatorxxx]

Notice they're sitting on a hard surface with a sheet thrown down. I wonder who cuddles these cats? They were bred to be subjects of experiments. Boo Hiss. Here in the states we love cats and dogs for their personalities. It's hard to stomach them being tortured to death because "that's what they were bred for."

[lukkha1]

@xxxElegatorxxx here in the states we love cats ! what a joke, you inevnted the declawing procedure. what the fuck are you talking about. yes here in the us we like black people and we respect other religion like islam, here in the us we never slaved people here in the us peta is a useless organization because animals are well treated.here in the us we are the best people on earth and we are not responsible for 8 out of ten wars and conflict now occuring on the planet. keep telling yourself that

[xxxElegatorxxx]

The kittens are adorable. Unfortunately, they are being bred for HIV research purposes, which means THEY ARE GOING TO BE INJECTED WITH THE HIV VIRUS. Which means more and more experiments on them.  :(

[sallywvday]

@xxxElegatorxxx Actually the kittens have not been injected with the Feline form of HIV and the scientist to do not plan on doing so until they are positive the cats can live through it without being hurt. Researches have tested samples of the cat's cells, not the cats themselves. And guess what? Each of those test has proved successful! :)

[MixTapeHomez]

Damn man, fuck this shit.. i wan't that gen injected in me make me fucking Glow haha !

[VerumAdNauseam]

It's the incredible kittah! "mraaaaaaaaoow!"

[mozeus5]

I think if we keep tinkering with genes and cloning, that one day its going to bite us in the ass!

[AndrewDeLong]

@mozeus5 Zombie Apocalypse...just around the corner. Dawn of the Dead style.

[amalavasi]

it is TRON's cat!

[Gerald360halowowness]

Curing HIV with glowing cats........

What will they think of next.

[AndrewDeLong]

@Gerald360halowowness Easy. Curing cancer with whistling horses.

[TheBreezanne]

The cats aren't in pain...GFP is just a way to help observe metabolic pathways. Scientists are so regulated, especially those with animals, so that inhumane experiments are not likely.

[SuperVancouverBC]

isnt this inhumane? i mean are these cats in pain?

[AudioFreQs]

@SuperVancouverBC no, they are injected with the florescent protein found in jelly fish. Just as harmless as the protein they receive from their food, or eating a can of tuna

[SwertKendy]

I get it , so when you see a guy / women glowing on the street...it means that they are effect with HIV , HAHAHA (what a good way to get away from them)

[TheFinger010]

omg the cat is sooooo cute i want one of those glowing cat soooo bad :(

[youdotoo3]

I want to glow like those cats lol~!

[nazronerox]

"Not HIV, but full blown AIDS!!"

[inspectorcrud]

Isn't this a cure for missing cats? Hey, where's Hulk? Oh yeah, up that tree. Just think of the energy savings too, no more night light. Drunk people all over the world will be raising there glasses to never again tripping over a cat when they get back to their homes.

[xX01Sephiroth01Xx]

bigger question than the cure for aids.... when and where can we buy those cats x_x

[zimtower]

So... AIDS patients will be given gene therapy and glow green and also be protected? wut?

[Cborraz2]

cats just became a whole lot cooler

[DEEKDOG3]

Dude, I can finally be the green lantern

[bitemeidareyou11]

I am compleatly against animal testing and stuff like that but I mean if it stops AIDS and makes cats GLOW without harming them then It's not cruel

[XHyperxNovaX]

@bitemeidareyou11 It only glows in certain wavelengths of light. So your cat would seem pretty normal too.

[hivquestions]

first question the 2 or 3 protein HIV test - vaccinations and drug use cause positive test results - hivquestions

[jjtheslayer69]

i can wait to get a glowing cat...i mean a cure for aids

[js21609bby1]

finally our tax money is being used properly >:D

[kristinab104]

@js21609bby1 This isnt necessarily our tax money being used. Most of the times (or all) new medicine is made buy companies who give money to a researcher who have a good idea and they invest in it, so now you can only worry about welfare:)

[Hubbins29]

@kristinab104 I can almost bet that their funding comes from the NIH.

[dudev]

@js21609bby1

Is that sarcasm? The glowing wasn't the goal of the experiment. It's just a marker to indicate if the cat has a particular gene.

[DigitalVioIence]

lol... can we say "Green lighting" and "Photoshop"??

[YanPln]

@DigitalVioIence Nope, its reality my friend

[warano]

its actually true, ass...study first, then you can comment...

[RisingStarAudio]

@DigitalVioIence can you say read a book.

[MeAnGeNe1998]

I seen this on one of the news apps and I had to look it up! This is amazing!!!! I want to have that extra gene

[MYKAL675]

its sweet

[SHAUNDAYSH]

Just Seen this on the news what do you guys think of this ????????

[jjtheslayer69]

@SHAUNDAYSH im trying to find an actual video of the cat XD

i saw it on yahoo this morning