Here’s your chance to own a genetically-modified glow-in-the-dark plant

Perhaps you remember the wildly successful but also controversial Glowing Plant Kickstarter. Perhaps you’re even patiently waiting for your glow-in-the-dark seeds, due to arrive in…September 2014.

For the less patient among you, another company has beat the Kickstarted folks to the glow-in-the-dark punch. St. Louis-based Bioglow will be auctioning off twenty glow-in-the-dark cultivated tobacco plants, called “Starlight Avatar,” starting January 31. This is your chance to be one of the first people out there to have your very own glow-in-the-dark plant.

Read the full, original story: Here’s Your Chance to Own a Glow-in-the-Dark Plant—And Soon

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