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The glowing effect was created by injecting jellyfish DNA into the mother rabbit's embryos and reinserting these into the mother's womb. Photograph: University of Hawaii 查看英文 Researchers from the universities of Istanbul and Hawaii hope the technique can lead to new ways to produce medicines. As part of an effort to improve treatments for life-threatening illnesses, a team of scientists have created rabbits that glow in the dark. Their efforts produced two rabbits out of a litter of eight that went from being a normal, fluffy white to glowing green in the dark. The rabbits were born at the University of Istanbul as part of a collaboration between scientists from universities in Turkey and Hawaii. The rabbits glow to show that a genetic manipulation technique can work efficiently, though the specific color is more cosmetic than scientific. "The green is not important at all – it's just a marker to show the experiment can be done successfully," said University of Hawaii associate professor Stefan Moisyadi. To produce the glowing effect, researchers injected jellyfish DNA into a mother rabbit's embryos. Those altered embryos were then inserted back into the mother. Similar experiments have resulted in glowing cockroaches and cats. Eventually, the researchers hope the technique can lead to new ways to produce medicines, Moisyadi said. | 
