{"id":565,"date":"2007-12-17T08:14:21","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T12:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=565"},"modified":"2007-12-13T10:22:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T14:22:39","slug":"its-a-cat-its-a-flashlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=565","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Cat!  It&#8217;s a Flashlight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/glowycats.thumbnail.jpg' class='contentimg' alt='Glowing Cats' \/>In the &#8220;headlines that sound like a joke&#8221; department: <A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20071212\/sc_afp\/healthscienceskoreacloning\">South Koreans Clone Cats That Glow in the Dark<\/A><\/p>\n<p>I think the first paragraph in this article is incorrect, since it says that the researchers &#8220;have cloned cats by manipulating a fluorescent protein gene;&#8221; I expect what the reporter meant is that they&#8217;ve cloned cats which happen to have the manipulated gene.  (If all you needed for cloning was manipulating a fluorescent gene, we&#8217;d be hip-deep in jellyfish.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this is significant because they&#8217;ve monkeyed with a mammal&#8217;s genes and then cloned it.  This holds great promise for eventually &#8220;fixing&#8221; all kinds of genetic diseases.<\/p>\n<p>I can see a side market for pets you can find during a power outage, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the &#8220;headlines that sound like a joke&#8221; department: South Koreans Clone Cats That Glow in the Dark I think the first paragraph in this article is incorrect, since it says that the researchers &#8220;have cloned cats by manipulating a fluorescent protein gene;&#8221; I expect what the reporter meant is that they&#8217;ve cloned cats which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}