Chimeric Human-Monkey Embryos Kept Alive for a Record 19 Days
Chimeric Human-Monkey Embryos Kept Alive for a Record 19 Days A chimeric human-monkey blastocyst. Building on previous experiments, an international team of scientists has created chimeric human-monkey embryos, which were kept alive for nearly three weeks. The breakthrough could lead to new ways of testing drugs and generating organs for transplant, but this line of research is raising some ethical concerns. Advertisement New research in Cell details the experiment, in which human stem cells were injected into primate embryos belonging to macaque monkeys. Most of these chimeric embryos were d...
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