"Has science gone too far?" has become something of a meme of late. People post the question sarcastically on images of homemade Oreos with cream from 100 of the cookies, or a fast-food sandwich where the buns are replaced with fried chicken. It's funny, but scientists are now legitimately asking the question after a team of researchers revealed that they have created chimera embryos in the lab.
A chimera is a hybrid of two species. In this case, scientists working on new possibilities for creating lab-grown organs for human transplants created early embryos that are half-human and half-monkey. The idea is that if scientists can grow parts of animals in the lab, and those pieces are close enough to humans to be used for transplants, a limitless supply of new organs could be on the horizon. The problem? They're growing human/monkey hybrids in a lab for the purpose of slicing them up and sticking the pieces in living humans.
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Scientists create human-monkey hybrid embryos in a lab originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 23:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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