7/17/09

Crazy Science Project of the Day:

This is so weird..and awesome at the same time.

"What do you get if you cross a bunny rabbit, some jellyfish genes and a madcap Brazilian bio-artist? Alba, the glowing green rabbit...artist Eduardo Kac commissioned a French genetics lab to make his genetically modified creation by implanting the albino rabbit with Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) from a type of jellyfish. Under a certain blue light, Alba literally glowed green."


Find out more here:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/offbeat-news/what-became-glowing-green-bunny/13200