Last year a professor at Columbia won the Nobel Prize for adapting the Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) naturally found in jellyfish for use as a genetic marker. It's pretty exciting, but maybe it wouldn't need to be mentioned every single week in my bio and orgo classes if he wasn't at Columbia.
But I just saw this photo and am blase no more. GFP's are wack! This is messed up. Look at those rats. Someone spliced their genes so that when their bodies make certain proteins they also make glow protein attached to the end. I look at these glowing rat babies and more and more life feels like a sci-fi. All I'm asking is: When are Jack and Chloe gonna show up?
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