Meet the transparents

Researchers at Hiroshima University have successfully bred frogs with transparent skin that makes their internal organs and blood vessels.

Transparent frog

The researchers say that this will make it possible to study the innards of the frogs without dissecting them.

They also say they can fuse the genes of fluorescent proteins to the frog’s genes which will make them glow in the dark.

Via Pink Tentacle

4 Responses to “Meet the transparents”

bamboo Said:

I had one of thes when I was a kid. Revell used to make ‘em.

claytonian Said:

got admit the title is clever

remora Said:

and as the magazine instructs us - Nature is Good!!
(remora)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070914/sc_afp/japanusenvironmentwildlife

how many of us have not eaten Tuna? - lets save the species.

rem. (gomen JP)

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remora Said:

and if anybody state’s that my on-going comments are not Japan-Related..”well so-be-it” (Soviet).

rem.

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