Chinese scientists are making human-monkey hybrid embryos
by Mark Frauenfelder from on (#4MDXR)
MIT Technology Review reports that scientists in China are making human-monkey embryos.
[T]he Spanish-born biologist Juan Carlos Izpisia Belmonte, who operates a lab at the Salk Institute in California, has been working with monkey researchers in China to perform the disturbing research.
Their objective is to create "human-animal chimeras," in this case monkey embryos to which human cells are added.
The idea behind the research is to fashion animals that possess organs, like a kidney or liver, made up entirely of human cells. Such animals could be used as sources of organs for transplantation.
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