The test, the latest in a series of biomedical experiments in China to have fuelled medical ethics debates, has already drawn ethical concerns.
HONG KONG - Chinese scientists have implanted human brain genes into monkeys, in a study intended to provide insights into the unique evolution of human intelligence.
It was conducted by researchers at the Kunming Institute of Zoology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with US researchers at the University of North Carolina.The study was published last month in Beijing-based journal National Science Review. The authors said the rhesus monkey, though genetically closer to humans than rodents, is still distant enough to alleviate ethical concerns."You just go to the Planet of the Apes immediately in the popular imagination," said Jacqueline Glover, a University of Colorado bioethicist."To humanise them is to cause harm. Where would they live and what would they do? Do not create a being that can't have a meaningful life in any context," she told MIT Technology Review.
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