I long time ago I flatted with a postgrad geneticist-microbiologist who had the crazy idea of trying to make bioluminescent bananas (so they could be picked in the dark ). Apparently, bananas are the wrong type of plant for the bioluminescent symbiote he wanted to use, though potatoes would have worked.

Now I see this – SKorean Scientists Clone Cats That Glow: Wired News – AP News – and I wonder, what ever happened to my old flatmate?