These days, it seems that science out wins art. Up to now artists could get their imagination free and color animals in their paintings different than in the real life. Scientists from South Korea have bred white Turkish Angora cats that glow red under ultraviolet light. The cats were cloned from altered cat skin cells and are nearly one year old. The experiment was conducted at Gyeongsang National University and it was funded by the Korean government. The scientists believe that their findings could be used to discover the truth about 250 genetic diseases from which suffer both human and cats. They also stated that results can be used to help cloning endangered animals. As exotic as they are, we shouldn’t expect that this kind of cloned cats will be found soon in the pet stores. The debates about the ethics in case of cloned and transgenic animals continue to rage. Last year, Genetic Savings & Clone that charged from $32,000 to $50,000 for cloning cats, shut its shop. Also, in 2004, California officials banned the sale of the world’s first transgenic pet, GloFish.
Several years ago, British scientists injected jellyfish genes into chicken and pigs making them to glow in the dark. Last year, Taiwanese scientists announced they bred pigs that glow in the dark.