Editing Green fluorescent protein (section)

=== Transgenic pets ===
[[Image:GFP Mice 01.jpg|right|thumb|Mice expressing GFP under UV light (left & right), compared to normal mouse (center)]]
[[Alba (rabbit)|Alba]], a green-fluorescent rabbit, was created by a French laboratory commissioned by [[Eduardo Kac]] using GFP for purposes of art and social commentary.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.ekac.org/gfpbunny.html#gfpbunnyanchor | vauthors = Kac E |title=GFP Bunny}}</ref> The US company Yorktown Technologies markets to aquarium shops green fluorescent [[zebrafish]] ([[GloFish]]) that were initially developed to detect pollution in waterways. NeonPets, a US-based company has marketed green fluorescent mice to the pet industry as NeonMice.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://neonmice.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214004617/http://www.neonmice.com/ |archive-date=February 14, 2009 |title=Glow-In-The Dark NeonMice |url-status=dead |access-date=August 30, 2016}}</ref> Green fluorescent pigs, known as Noels, were bred by a group of researchers led by Wu Shinn-Chih at the Department of Animal Science and Technology at [[National Taiwan University]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4605202.stm Scientists in Taiwan breed fluorescent green pigs]</ref> A Japanese-American Team created green-fluorescent [[cat]]s as proof of concept to use them potentially as model organisms for diseases, particularly [[HIV]].<ref name=Wongsrikeao_2011>{{cite journal|author-link5=Eric Poeschla | vauthors = Wongsrikeao P, Saenz D, Rinkoski T, Otoi T, Poeschla E | title = Antiviral restriction factor transgenesis in the domestic cat | journal = Nature Methods | volume = 8 | issue = 10 | pages = 853–9 | date = 2011 | pmid = 21909101 | pmc = 4006694 | doi = 10.1038/nmeth.1703 }}</ref> In 2009 a South Korean team from Seoul National University bred the first transgenic [[Ruppy|beagles]] with fibroblast cells from sea anemones. The dogs give off a red fluorescent light, and they are meant to allow scientists to study the genes that cause human diseases like [[narcolepsy]] and [[blindness]].<ref>{{Cite web | vauthors = Callaway E | date = 23 April 2009 | url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17003-fluorescent-puppy-is-worlds-first-transgenic-dog.html#.U3O8tvldV8G | title=Fluorescent puppy is world's first transgenic dog | work = New Scientist }}</ref>