Maria Silveira | My Amplog

Man, those scientists just love their glowing lab subjects. First came mice, and then recently the first primates got some jellyfish genes implanted into their DNA. Now, scientists at Emory University have implanted the gene for jellyfish fluorescent protein in prairie voles.

But why prairie voles? They’re not a model system like a mouse or zebrafish, and they don’t cure any diseases like naked mole rats. So why them? Because voles rarely step out on their mates. In fact, voles show a lot of human-like social behaviors such as mating for life, shared child raising for couples, and even cuddling. But, like humans, some voles do have a wandering eye. Read more at www.popsci.com