Wow, when you go to the link it's even more startling the difference between the cute white Kitty's in normal light and the devil's spawn evil kitties in black light.

If I had those kitties in my dorm room in college when we had black-light Pink Floyd posters me and my friends would have jumped out the damn window when we partied.

Larry February 12th, 2008 11:04:00 PM

Larry: I was trying to stay away from the drug references. For the record, YOU started it. Still there's something really spooky about these cats in a bad acid trip kind of a way, right?

Dr. Patty Khuly February 13th, 2008 08:11:00 AM

A few years ago I saw some pigs that glowed green for a simialr reason. The funniest thing being that their testicles seemed to be the 'glowingest' bit.

emily February 13th, 2008 09:20:00 AM

Well WE just put on the black light and told ghost story's, I have no idea what YOU'RE talking
about. ;-)

Apparently we were both saints compared to emily though -- green, glowing pig testes is one bad trip!

Larry February 13th, 2008 09:37:00 AM

Ya'll are making me laugh! But really - this story is very interesting! I hope something comes out of the research! And I hope that these kitties get some love too! They're awfully cute (even when glowing!)

Tammy February 13th, 2008 10:30:00 AM

"The first litter of these freaky felines was born last month. "

Actually it's older news than that. Although the article itself is dated last month and it says they "produced several kitty clones in January and February." I wrote a bit about how technically they're actually fluorescent and not glowing when I first read it myself.

http://modern-science.blogspot.com/2007/12/fluores...

zandperl February 13th, 2008 10:38:00 AM

You know, many birds can see into the uv spectrum – budgies and cockatiels (ones with yellow pigment, anyway) have fluorescent feathers on their faces which play a part in mate selection. You can see this fluorescence with a black light. Do these cats fluoresce for them too,and could they see them in the dark? Diurnal birds have even worse night vision than humans because color vision is necessarily traded off against color vision.

Picture it: Two birdies, roosting in a tree at midnight and one says to the other “I tawt I taw a puddy tat!”

Alison February 13th, 2008 10:30:00 PM

Gene jockies. Bah. May they all die an early death. Fiddling with the bits, ignoring the whole. This stuff has been around for a while. I seem to remember something about inserting spider genes into something or other....maybe sheep.

CathyA February 14th, 2008 08:07:00 AM

CathyA: I once got a behind-the-scenes tour at the Merck campus outside of Philadelphia. As I recall, black widow anti-venin was produced by a group of horses after they were exposed to increasing amounts of this toxin. It was a not-for-profit Merck project designed to make this expensive anti-venin available to hospitals. It wasn't a genetic experiment like this one though: Goats were experimentally given a spider gene to produce a super-strong molecule in their milk for a new version of kevlar-like material. I don't know what happened with these. When I get the chance I'll surf these out for you.

Dr. Patty Khuly February 14th, 2008 08:21:00 AM

Dr. Patty,
If there's an actual medical benefit to the experiment, I don't mind so much, but still feel there are too many unanswered questions. Seems to me there are always unintended consequences. Mostly because we are so largely ignorant of how the natural world actually operates.
Yeah, found the spider thingey - back in 1999!
http://www.biotech.ucdavis.edu/Links/tac.cfm
http://www.nexiabiotech.com/en/01_tech/01-bst.php

Molecular engineers.......ya right.

CathyA February 14th, 2008 08:29:00 AM

OIC, now we're paying for it! ;-(

http://www.uwyo.edu/News/showrelease.asp?id=8959

June 27, 2006 -- A University of Wyoming molecular biologist will use the renewal of a half-million-dollar Air Force grant to develop spider silk for military and medical applications.

CathyA February 14th, 2008 08:44:00 AM

i want 1!!!!!!!!!!!! how long do they live?

kobey April 15th, 2008 06:08:00 PM

i think glow in the dark kittens are cool.

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Their glow-ability comes courtesy of a gene for red fluorescence (akin to a pigment found in deep-sea creatures the likes of which you might see in disc two of The Blue Planet, one of the best nature series I've ever had the pleasure to experience).

There's an actual medical benefit to the experiment, I don't mind so much, but still feel there are too many unanswered questions. Seems to me there are always unintended consequences. Mostly because we are so largely ignorant of how the natural world actually operates.

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The cats are very cute and look like bats in the dark, if it doesnt harm then who knows it might benefit us all one day, and will certainly halp them when out on the roads on a rak night from getting run over.

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