World's first monkey-pig hybrids are born in Chinese lab as part of ground-breaking bid to grow human organs inside animals for transplants

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 04:41 EST, 7 December 2019 | Luke Andrews

[Olog-hai]

Two chimera piglets containing monkey DNA have been born in China.

Although both died within a week and appeared to be normal, the baby animals had genetic material from cynomolgus monkeys in their heart, liver, spleen, lung and skin.

Scientists said the research, which required more than 4,000 embryos to get the piglets, aims to find ways of growing human organs in animals for transplantation.

“This is the first report of full-term monkey-pig chimeras”, Tang Hai at the State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology in Beijing told New Scientist.

Five-day old piglet embryos had monkey stem cells injected into them that had been adjusted to produce a flourescent (sic) protein, allowing researchers to find out where the cells ended up. […]

Neuroscientist Douglas Munoz at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, said that research projects like this “just really ethically scares me. For us to start to manipulate life functions in this kind of way without fully knowing how to turn it off, or stop it if something goes awry, really scares me.”

However, China shows no sign of stopping after proposing in July to create monkeys with partially human-derived brains in order to better study diseases like Alzheimer’s. …

[dynoman]

Not impressed until they make them fly!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

This stuff gives me the willies!

And I still believe (tinfoil hat in place) that they ARE cloning humans, somehow, somewhere.

[real saxophonist]

Pig Ferret

[dp0622]

Imagine the kind of BABES you can make mixing the right genes from different women!!

[dp0622]

I agree.

[blackdog]

Cuts down on how many need typewriters and how long it will take for Shakespeare works.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

They don’t look like Al Gore.

[TADSLOS]

[Afterguard]

Then what will the Chinese do with all the organs harvested from their prisoners?

[Huskrrrr]

The project was headed by Dr. Moreau.

[StormEye]

"However, China shows no sign of stopping after proposing
in July to create monkeys with partially human-derived brains ..."

[EEGator]

[Vaduz]

Didn’t they find out that when they grew human parts on a pig the human can get pig diseases ?.

[wastedyears]

Imagine the kind of BABES you can make mixing the right genes from different women!!

Me and millions of other nerds around the world just want catgirls, and half-raccoon girls..

[blackdog]

Feed the pigs. Sheesh. All you see are problems. /s

[dp0622]

I mean I’ll take one if there’s extra of them :)

[dp0622]

Why did I think I was clicking on a deep article about cloning and gene splicing :)

[blackdog]

Catwoman. Yes! Every man gets his very own Catwoman!

Go you little yellow bastards, go!

[Reeses]

Imagine the kind of BABES you can make mixing the right genes from different women!!

except remove the brain DNA and splice in the brain of a Golden Retriever.