AIDS, aid the “kittens fluorescent”

Genetically modified animals and AIDS. In the first two arguments seem to feel light years away, not related, but a study conducted in Minnesota, connecting them in a sensible and convincing.

At the university of that city, were made of kittens born to wild-type genes which were added those of jellyfish and those of the macaque. The first will allow some parts of their body fluorescence, typical of the jellyfish, which will help scientists follow the current route of the virus, when they attack certain organs … rather the macaque genes are among the most resistant to HIV in the world and so they will study the positive reaction against the disease.

The fact that the study be done on cats is the fact that, oddly, this animal has in common with us men, 90% of the genes in the DNA and therefore the effects of many diseases and treatments, designed on the cats, give an idea how it might react to our body subjected to the same events.