GMO Danio

Glofish danios were first created by genetically modifying zebra danios indigenous to rivers in India and Bangladesh.

In 1999, Singaporean scientists extracted the green fluorescent protein from the jellyfish and inserted it into the zebrafish embryo.

The main motive behind this genetic modification was to detect environmental pollution that plagues our water bodies.

After the initial success, the team developed red fluorescent zebrafish by inserting the gene of a sea coral and an orange-yellow fluorescent zebrafish by adding a certain variant of the jellyfish gene.