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Article: Cloned animals' health is focus of study at Missouri university.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- November 9, 2004
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By Christi Nies, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 9--In a lab deep inside an animal sciences building at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 10 pink baby pigs scramble playfully around their 400-pound mother. Ten little snouts poke through the side slats of the pen as they squirm and squeal, but it's obvious these aren't your typical farm piglets.
Three of those snouts are tinged with fluorescent yellow, with hooves to match. They carry a green fluorescent protein gene, or GFP, transferred from jellyfish and carried by their mother. The glowing pigs are genetic experiments, but they're also descendents of ...