Glowing fish, not reviews.

PositionNews & trends - Genetically engineered zebra fish - Brief Article

The nation's first genetically engineered pet has gone on sale: a tiny zebra fish with a gene from a sea coral that makes it red in normal light and causes it to glow under ultraviolet light. Some stores report good sales of the GloFish. Others say the response has been lukewarm, in part because the fish, which sell for $5 to $10 (versus as little as 33 cents for ordinary zebra fish), are unremarkable in natural light. Some critics say science should leave animals alone. "I'm not that big on mutated and man-made fish,"...

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