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Glowing monkeys
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/glow ing-monkeys-make-more-glowing-monkeys-the-old- fashioned-way/
Scientists are able to transfer a gene from a glow worm to an animal to make it glow. In future this could have enormous benefits when studying diseases.
Would it be possible to put this gene into a virus such as swine flu? Whenever a person coughed if he had swine flu it would be visible to others.
Scientists are able to transfer a gene from a glow worm to an animal to make it glow. In future this could have enormous benefits when studying diseases.
Would it be possible to put this gene into a virus such as swine flu? Whenever a person coughed if he had swine flu it would be visible to others.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Even if this experiment is a fake the transfer of this glow gene has been put into other species so that is genuine. If the offspring of these animals also inherit the glow gene I wondered whether this would happen with a virus. These are also made up of genetic material and its well known they can mutate to form a new virus.
A cough that glows seems science fiction but progress has been so rapid in this field.
A cough that glows seems science fiction but progress has been so rapid in this field.
It would be great but the gene would have to be inserted at the right position to be active. I doubt if this is possible with the DNA of a virus.
A virus is basically just a bag of incomplete DNA with a screw organ. It needs the DNA of the host to multiply. If this were possible the host (human) would glow from the infected cells. A nice thought though.
A virus is basically just a bag of incomplete DNA with a screw organ. It needs the DNA of the host to multiply. If this were possible the host (human) would glow from the infected cells. A nice thought though.
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