World's First Transgenic Dog Glows!

A group of scientists in South Korea have created the world's first transgenic dog. Take a look at the picture. This cloned beagle named Ruppy is the world's first transgenic dog. She was engineered to glow red under ultraviolet light.

At first glance, this sweet beagle puppy looks like just another cute puppy. But when she is lit with an ultraviolet light, the odd dog glows deep red in the dark.

Ruppy (short for Ruby Puppy) was one of five cloned puppies genetically engineered to produce a fluorescent protein by scientists. They were created by a team led by Byeong-Chun Lee of Seoul National University in South Korea, who created the first cloned dog Snuppy in 2005.

Milky Way Tastes like Raspberries!

Can anybody ever think about the taste of a giant dust cloud at the heart of the Milky Way? Yes, probably no one but Astronomers did. Astronomers testing a giant dust cloud at the heart of the Milky Way have found that it might taste of raspberries, according to reports.

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, were searching space for evidence of amino acids: the basic chemicals from which life is created. Scientists failed to locate any such aminos but did find ethyl formate - the chemical responsible for the flavour of raspberries.

The astronomers used the IRAM telescope in Spain to analyze electromagnetic radiation emitted by a hot and dense region of Sagittarius B2 that surrounds a newborn star, the paper reported.
Radiation from the star is absorbed by molecules floating around in the gas cloud, which is then re-emitted at different energies depending on the type of molecule. Ethyl formate and propyl cyanide are two molecules are the largest yet discovered in deep space.

Astronomer Arnaud Belloche said that It was happen to give raspberries their flavor, but there were many other molecules that were needed to make space raspberries. The results are being presented today at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science at the University of Hertfordshire.