{"id":2539,"date":"2008-01-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/01\/09\/lysenko-would-be-so-proud\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T12:00:00","slug":"lysenko-would-be-so-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/09\/lysenko-would-be-so-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"Lysenko would be so proud&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A glow in the dark pig has given birth to more glow in the dark pigs.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news119086691.html\">Fluorescent Chinese pig passes on trait to offspring<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\" title=\"Science and technology news\">PhysOrg.com<\/a> <br \/>A pig genetically modified in China to make it glow has given birth to fluorescent piglets, proving such changes can be inherited, state media said Wednesday.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news119086691.html\">&#8230;<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>The pigs were originally modified (to glow) using somatic cell nuclear transfer.It is not entirely clear to me how the gene got into the gametes.  It also appears that the distribution of the gene in the offspring is not exactly the same as in the parent, suggesting something interesting going on with respect to development.I await a more detailed description of the finding!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A glow in the dark pig has given birth to more glow in the dark pigs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[163,151,101,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-EX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}