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Monday, January 25, 2010

Ruppy

The following post is from Jamie Newman, editorial advisor to ACP Hospitalist:

Have you heard about Ruppy?

Jump on a plane to South Korea. Take one red sea anemone and one cloned beagle, mix some genetic material together in a fibroblast--shaken, not stirred--and you get a puppy that fluoresces under UV light. Do a Web search image for Ruppy and you'll see the glowing dog (or click here).

Strange but true.

And what, you ask yourself, does this have to do with hospital medicine?
(Go ahead and ask yourself now.
Really, I mean it, ask.)

Next time you are sitting in a meeting, trying to get two groups to work together and you hear "The cultures are too different!" or "This isn't going to work"-- just say "RUPPY!"

Ruppy. If you can mix a Cnidaria with a Canis, then anything is possible.

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