{"id":9783,"date":"2011-07-28T05:07:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T05:07:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-28T05:07:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T05:07:10","slug":"Korean-scientists-create-glowing-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=9783","title":{"rendered":"Korean scientists create glowing dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>South Korean scientists said yesterday they have created a glowing dog using a cloning technique that could help find cures for human diseases such as Alzheimer&#8217;s and Parkinson&#8217;s<\/strong>, Yonhap news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>A research team from Seoul National University (SNU) said the genetically modified female beagle, <strong>named Tegon and born in 2009, has been found to glow fluorescent green under ultraviolet light if given a doxycycline antibiotic,<\/strong> the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers, who completed a two-year test, said the ability to glow can be turned on or off by adding a drug to the dog&#8217;s food.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The creation of Tegon opens new horizons since the gene injected to make the dog glow can be substituted with genes that trigger fatal human diseases,&#8221; the news agency quoted lead researcher Byeong-Chun Lee as saying.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nHe said the dog was created using the somatic cell nuclear transfer technology that the university team used to make the world&#8217;s first cloned dog, Snuppy, in 2005.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nThe scientist said that because there are 268 illnesses that humans and dogs have in common<\/strong>, creating dogs that artificially show such symptoms could aid treatment methods for diseases that afflict humans.<\/p>\n<p>The latest discovery published in Genesis, an international journal, <strong>took four years of research with roughly 3.2 billion won ($3 million) spent<\/strong> to make the dog and conduct the necessary verification tests, Yonhap said.<\/p>\n<p><em>A combination 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