Brave New Monkey
The researchers say they had no such goal in creating ANDi. Instead, they hope to create primate models of human diseases, and they had to start simply. They first retrieved a well-studied gene, called the green fluorescent protein gene, from jellyfish. True to its name, the gene makes a protein that, in blue light, glows green. They then put copies of the gene into viruses, since (as anyone with the flu knows) viruses are adept at penetrating cells....