First they created a flourescent cat , and now they've gone and made a fluorescent puppy! Ruby Puppy (Ruppy, for short) glows red when the lights are turned out. Supposedly her hue is due to a cloning method which might lead the way in helping to cure certain types of disease. It also would be great in case she ever gets lost: “Ruby Puppy is a beagle with brown spots, who glows red in the dark. Reward offered.”

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1. Fluorescent Puppy is World’s First Transgenic Dog
2. Glow In The Dark Cat
3. “…dog-cloning is hard and making transgenic dogs, according to one geneticist, is “laborious, expensive and slow.”
4. Fluorescent Puppy (First!)

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1. Complete Genomics: We’ll Map Your Genes For 5K
2. Five Thousand Bucks for Your Genome
3. Dawn of Low-Price Mapping Could Broaden DNA Uses
4. Has Competition Driven Down Price?