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Posted: 03 May 2023

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Alba

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In the final hours of the millennium an albino rabbit was born on the grounds of a French agricultural research institute in the town of Jouy-en-Josas, near Versailles. . . . . Down the hill from the laboratories, beyond the abattoir, stood an old, overcrowded hutch. Each of its hundred or so albino rabbits was incarcerated in a wire cage described by one visitor, as “about two hops long and no hops wide.” The millennium bunny was indistinguishable from the peers. Its only discernible character trait was a demeanor so mild that it seemed to have been drugged. The laboratory, unaware the rabbit was destined for global stardom, designated it GFP.014. it was not until four months later, after being visited by a Brazilian artist whose appearance earned him frequent comparisons to Victor Frankenstein, that the rabbit was named Alba ~ page 275

The glow was produced by a gene known as GFP, an acronym for “green fluorescent protein.” It has been isolated from the crystal jelly, ‘Aequorea victoria,’ which lived along the Pacific coast. The French scientists had used the synthetic variant that increased the brightness of its glow by two orders of magnitude. They injected the synthetic glow-gene into the fertilized egg cells and implanted it into Alba’s mother. . . . . Page 276

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