Posted on 12/08/2019 10:16:08 AM PST by 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. …
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Ping to another DNA thread since we mentioned our genes being in research: https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3799336/posts
Interesting.
Can you identify as a monkey pigmy gender?
Man pig someone contact Kramer! Guess the organ harvesting of live criminals and dissidents are slowing
So...they did the work on manbearpig, eh?
What's wrong with balls in the mouth?
You left out the modifier:
TENNIS.
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