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Scientists Create Monkey-Human Chimeric Embryos

Summary by Cindy Olmstead

Embryos that are part human, part monkey, have been created in the lab by scientists who say the chimeric creations will help them study ways to produce new organs for transplants in humans. The study was published April 15, 2021, in the journal Cell, and one of the first questions that critics asked was: Why are researchers literally pushing the ethics envelope on this without “having a proper conversation about what we should or should not do?” One critic said, "Nobody really...