When fluorescent, green pigs fly...

Yesterday, yes yesterday, the title of this entry would have been overly far-fetched and cliche.... today it is just a paraphrased cliche. According to a Reuters article on Yahoo, researchers in Taiwan have bred three male transgenic, fluorescent, green pigs. Now it is news to me, but apparently partially green pigs already exist... but these little hams (insert favorite Green Eggs and Ham reference here) even have green hearts (yup, presumably they can claim to be the first true fans of the Boston Celtics that bleed green?).

In all fairness, I know close to nothing about embryonic biology, and this is presumably important. I am guessing because it is a demonstration of what might be done, allowing specific conditions that can be "turned on" at the embryonic stage to be studied... but I never really thought that we might someday see black-lights at a pig farm!