Timeline | glowing-dark-cats

TIMELINE of RELATED PROJECTS

In South Korea, Il-Keun Kong and a few other scientists started and created the first cats that could glow in the dark.

(On left Il-Keun Kong, on right first glow-in-the-dark cats)

2007

In May, rabbits were first experimented into becoming glow-in-the-dark at the institute in France.

(Glow-in-the-dark bunnies on the left)

2000

Before cats, scientists conducted experiments to make several glow-in-the-dark animals.

1999

Scientists at the National University of Singapore inserted fluorescent genes into zebrafish embryos.

(Glow-in-the-dark zebrafish on left, normal zebrafish on right)

2002

In January, like the zebrafish, some scientists implanted the flurescent gene into the mice's embryos to make them glow later on.

(Glow-in-the-dark mice on the left)

2008

In Taiwan, they modifed pigs that already have glow-in-the-dark skin to glow in the inside as well. So not only do they glow on the outside, their organs glow as well

(Glow-in-the dark pigs on left)

2009

2011

Scientists in Japan experimented on Monkeys to see if they can glow in the dark at the Central Institute of Experimented Animals, Kawasaki Japan.

(Glow-in-the dark monkeys on left)

At Seoul National University, dogs were experimented on to glow-in-the-dark.

(Glow-in-the dark beagle on left)

A Japanese-American Team created more green fluorescent glowing cats to further study Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV) which is similar to HIV.

(On left glow-in-the-dark kittens)

In New Orleans, the first genetically modified glow-in-the-dark cat was cloned and to have more of a blue glow. His nickname was "Mr. Green Genes" and was only six months old when he was cloned.

(On left Mr. Green Genes)

2012

In October at the Animal Reproductive Institute of Uruguay, immediately after these sheep were born, scientists injected the fluorescent gene to see if they would glow later since the gene was not injected at the embryo stage.

(On left glow-in-the-dark sheep)