Glow-in-the-dark cats gengineered to resist HIV equivalent and express GFP, that is to say, can haz glokitteh.

Cat germline transfected with Rhesus antiretroviral proteins to model resistance of both Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV), tagged with eGFP.

(research article: http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nmeth.1703.html)

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   GFP-Green Fluorescent Protein, isolated from jellyfish, usually used in tagging Genetically Modified Organisms(GMOs)...

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