Thursday, October 11, 2007

Um, EW...

Those wacky Japanese scientists did it again. Introducing the next big thing in Biology 101:


Yep, a transparent frog. The point is to have a frog that doesn't need to be dissected to learn from. Of course that just shows the outer goodies, still can't see the deeper stuff. Nice thought, but the frog is still a lab project. Besides, according to the article, only 1 in 16 frogs end up with the transparency, plus it doesn't seem to be an inherent trait either. I don't see public schools fronting the high bill these would cost, not when regular frogs work just fine.

Genetics is a scary science...

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