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Glow-in-the-dark felines: The ‘cat’s meow’ of HIV research

A glow-in-the-dark cat-slash-monkey hybrid... Sounds like something that a mad creator unleashes, which inevitably ends up terrorizing Tokyo.

You would be incorrect if you thought that this is the plot for the latest sci-fi movie. The glow-in-the-dark moggies are in fact helping scientists understand how to block the HI-virus from establishing itself in the body.

So what do you get when you cross a cat with a monkey and a jellyfish?