Posts Tagged ‘Pig’

Today’s Time Waster

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1. Pigs glow in the dark:
Scientists in Taiwan have used jellyfish genes and created pigs that glow in the dark.
They are [...]

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China to send pig sperm to space

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China is planning to study the effects of space on sperm, by sending the semen from pedigree pigs into orbit.
Some 40 grams of pig sperm will be taken on board the Shenzhou VI spacecraft for its October launch.
Some of the sperm will be kept outside the spacecraft’s biological capsule and some inside, according to China’s [...]

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