Scientists based in China have created a monkey chimera with two sets of DNA, experimental work they say could ultimately benefit medical research and the conservation of endangered species. The ...

The images are unsettling, to put it mildly: a baby monkey whose skin grows eerily green, with glowing fingertips reminiscent of E.T. This is “#10,” the world’s first live-born monkey that’s largely ...

Image of the human-monkey embryo; human cells are labelled in red Credit - Weizhi Ji, Kunming University of Science and Technology In a ground-breaking experiment, researchers have successfully ...

The monkey "chimera" with two sets of DNA at three days old. Some body parts appear tinted green, because the researchers marked the transplanted cells with fluorescent dye to trace what parts they ...

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