spider goats

[fangsalot]

i couldnt get the link up here but check out "spider goats" on youtube.

 

[Black Widow88]

I did but all I got was something from a movie or a TV show with Google in the title. I could try looking them up on Google and see what I come up with. Are these spiders or what?

The name caught my eye and I just had to see what this was about.

Black Widow88

 

[clearlysaid]

I saw this before... if this is the video referenced.

 

[Black Widow88]

I saw this before... if this is the video referenced.

Holy shit!.......

That's amazing! I've never even heard of that! Nor if some one told me out of the clear blue would I believe it to be possible! The Insect and spider world is truly amazing!

I'm putting this on my blog! This is gold right here!

Black Widow88

 

[Stylopidae]

It's not any different than taking a gene from a bacterium and putting it into corn.

I'd be interested in seeing how they stack up.

 

[Black Widow88]

But I never thought that anything like that was possible.

Black Widow88

 

[problemchildx]

It's pretty boring when you don't have speakers...

>Me
Cool Spider though

 

[Black Widow88]

It's pretty boring when you don't have speakers...

>Me
Cool Spider though

YAY for me then because I have speakers! And that is indeed a cool spider. It's definitely a Nephila sp. I dig those because they're so colorful and huge.

Bless them spiders for all the crazy and wonderful experiments they do on them and what we learn from them.

Black Widow88

 

[Stylopidae]

But I never thought that anything like that was possible.

Black Widow88

You'd be amazed how commonplace things like this actually are. The example I mentioned was biotech corn (BT stands for Bacillus thurogensis
...something like that), but the insulin diabetics use actually comes from bacteria that have taken up the gene for producing that substance from humans.

Scientists are experimenting with putting trout genes into citrus fruit to keep them from getting damaged by frost.

There are many more examples, but this is all I can think of right now.

Genetic engineering is some pretty crazy stuff. Useful, though.

 

[Black Widow88]

That's amazing! It's also unsual to hear all of the examples you have provided.

Black Widow88

 

[Mr. Mordax]

Genetics is awesome. I'm majoring in bioengineering and a few of my classes have genetic engineering segments -- one of the more "fun" GMO examples is a glow-in-the-dark bunny.

They gave it the gene that codes for green fluorescent protein as an embryo, with the gene having been taken from a bioluminescent jellyfish.

Checked out the video . . . one of my professors had a T-shirt about that.
On the front: "A genetically modified goat produces ___ of fusion protein annually"
On the back: "Bioengineering is smooth"

 

[Black Widow88]

Awesome! I would love to see a glow in the dark bunny!

Black Widow88

 

[Choobaine]

Yeah they did it in pigs too apparently

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Health/story?id=1498324

http://www.inkycircus.com/photos/uncategorized/fluorescent_green_pigs_1.jpg

I want a flourescent rabbit. Or a pig. I don't care. I want glow in the dark animals.

Wanna bet that in ten years we'll have glow in the dark novelty pets?

I'd love that. I'd be so proud to own a luminescent bosc monitor...

 

[Mr. Mordax]

Heh . . . then Lori's tarantulas would be just as awesome as my scorps.

 

[JesseD]

I remember seeing a short segment of a documentary or it was probably something on some Discovery channel science news show. It was about those spider goats which are actually made in Montreal. If I'm right I remember them being 1/70 000 part spider. It's so the goat's milk produces a protein to make spider silk. Of course it's to find a way to make mass quantities of it for it's super strength properties that a lot of us know about already. Although I remember another documentary about these other researchers who discovered that this fish (hagfish) creates butloads of slime as a defense that has super strength fibers in it proving more efficient the using the spider goats. I would assume both studies are still going on.

 

[Black Widow88]

Yeah they did it in pigs too apparently

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Health/story?id=1498324

http://www.inkycircus.com/photos/uncategorized/fluorescent_green_pigs_1.jpg

I want a flourescent rabbit. Or a pig. I don't care. I want glow in the dark animals.

Wanna bet that in ten years we'll have glow in the dark novelty pets?

I'd love that. I'd be so proud to own a luminescent bosc monitor...

Holy crap! This is crazy and amazing at the same time! I can't believe my eyes! I too would love to own a fluorescent animal someday if they ever get that far in my life time.

You know some scorps glow under UV light so right now that's like the closest thing to it AFAIK.

Black Widow88

 

[Canth]

Holy crap! This is crazy and amazing at the same time! I can't believe my eyes! I too would love to own a fluorescent animal someday if they ever get that far in my life time.

You know some scorps glow under UV light so right now that's like the closest thing to it AFAIK.

Black Widow88

All scorpions except like, two species or genera. Can't remember which one.

 

[Black Widow88]

Funny I thought it was just 2! What about the Emperors? They're black so how on earth would they glow under UV light?

Black Widow88

 

[JesseD]

read this

http://www.wonderquest.com/scorpions-glow.htm

 

[Mr. Mordax]

What about the Emperors? They're black so how on earth would they glow under UV light?

I have some forest scorpions that are even blacker than emperors, and they glow just as brightly. I don't know how extensive your knowledge of physics is, but the basis behind fluorescense is a molecule is struck by light of a certian wavelength, briefly absorbs the light, then re-emits it at a different wavelength.

If it just reflected the light, we'd see something as colored; if it re-emitted at the original wavelength, it would look clear.