Scientists Create Early Embryos That Are Part Human, Part Monkey0
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- August 31, 2021
For the first time, scientists have created embryos that are a mix of human and monkey cells.
For the first time, scientists have created embryos that are a mix of human and monkey cells.
Development could be pivotal saving the species, scientists say
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) have found a way to transform skin cells into the three major stem cell types that comprise early-stage embryos. The work (in mouse cells) has significant implications for modelling embryonic disease and placental dysfunctions, as well as paving the way to create whole embryos from skin cells.
“If you have pigs with partly human brains you would have animals that might actually have consciousness like a human,” Newman says. “It might have human-type needs. We don’t really know.”