Scientists Create Glow-in-the-Dark, AIDS-Resistant Cats

And yet, they still can't figure out how to use a toilet or feed themselves.

In case you weren't sure that human ingenuity is still kicking around, and that our species' desire to play God never gets old, American scientists have made glow-in-the-dark cats that could be resistant to feline AIDS. Yep, glow-in-the-dark cats. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic injected a gene that occurs naturally in jellyfish that creates a flourescent protein into cat eggs, as well as an antiviral gene found in rhesus monkeys. Using flourescent genes is apparently a common way to track cells in an animal's body, so the scientists were able to determine that the anti-viral proteins were reproduced throughout the kittens' bodies. The cats were found to be far less susceptible to feline AIDS, or feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), than their parents, leading the research team to want to reproduce the experiment in other animals.