Glow-in-the-dark pigs and other animals have confirmed that DNA transplants are possible. These transplants can one day guide to DNA transplants from animals to people who suffer from genetic diseases.

The findings of the researchers who made glow-in-the-dark pigs today may lead to the cheaper, more effective medicines of tomorrow. The medicines are for diseases such as clotting enzymes for people who suffer from hemophilia.

A team of scientists from South China Agricultural University in Guangdong Province created 10 transgenic glow-in-the-dark pigs. This was done in the same way which was used by a research team in Turkey to create glow-in-the-dark rabbit, which was done through injecting jellyfish DNA in them.

The Turkish team is now making efforts to engineer glow-in-the-dark sheep. The Chinese scientists injected pig embryos with fluorescent jellyfish DNA with the help of a technique that is developed by the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Medicine.

The jellyfish DNA causes the trash of pigs to emit a green glow when the animals are positioned under black fluorescent lights or UVA lights. The study will be published soon in the Biology of Reproduction Journal.

Dr. Stefan Moisyadi, a veteran bioscientist at the University of Hawaii's medical school's Institute for Biogenesis Research, says, "It's just a marker to show that we can take a gene that was not originally present in the animal and now exists in it".