Really, Really Smart Monkeys
Sunday Mail writes:EXPERIMENTS where human brain cells are injected into monkey foetuses could lead to a moral nightmare, scientists will be warned this week.Have seen nothing of either this group and its deliberations or of Evan's coming Science publication. But buckle up for this one.A high-powered American committee is to call for restrictions on the research, amid fears that it could produce monkeys with brains that are more human than animal.
The group of neuro-scientists, bio-ethicists, animal behaviouralists, lawyers and philosophers was set up four years ago to investigate the growing science of human-primate 'chimeras' - named after Greek literature's myt hical monsters, a combination of lion, goat and snake.
Now the team, based at John Hopkins University in Maryland, is publishing its conclusions in leading journal Science.
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