Scientists successfully create human-monkey hybrid, raising ethical questions

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Scientists have raised ethical questions after having successfully grown monkey embryos containing human cells for the first time.

“This paper is a dramatic demonstration of the ability of human pluripotent stem cells to be incorporated into the embryos of cynomolgus monkey when introduced into the monkey blastocysts,” said Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, a developmental biologist at the California Institute of Technology.

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