Cal Berkeley Researchers Create 'Glow-In-The-Dark' Fish

“Most people think of carbohydrates as food, but the surface of any cell in our body is adorned with a ton of sugars as well as proteins that allow cells to communicate with other cells and invading pathogens”

The novel method of fluorescently tagging the sugar chains, or carbohydrates, that coat cells is a new tool for those studying development in the zebrafish, a laboratory organism popular because its transparent ... via NBC11.com

[Shaking My Head]

Now isn't THIS a swell use of taxpayer dollars... Psst,, for about $1.49 you can buy a fish called a Neon at your local pet store that 'glows' too. A lot cheaper and maybe this team could devote their time to something that would do humankind, good.

[Chris Jury]

Tell me about it. It's much better to just look at some pretty fish in an aquarium that are cheap rather than pioneer novel experimental methods, the likes of which have provided the entirety of modern medicine and agriculture. It's definitely better to just have an aquarium than to lay the groundwork for curing currently incurable disease (rollseyes)