A few weeks ago, scientists reported successfully growing human cells in monkey embryos, paving the way for creating live human–monkey chimeras. For many, this could open the door to great medical ...

An article published April 15 in the journal Cell described how scientists took a blastocyst from a macaque and added human cells. A human-monkey chimeric blastocyst. Credit: Weizhi Ji/Kunming ...

April 22 (UPI) --Scientists have created the world's first monkey embryos containing human cells in an attempt to investigate how the two types of cell develop alongside each other. The embryos, which ...

Scientists are locked in debate over the necessity of creating chimera embryos that contain both monkey and human cells. A study released on Thursday showed that human cells can indeed grow when ...

Depending on your point of view, the creation of an embryo that is part-human and part-monkey is either a great opportunity for medical experts to create organs and tissues for human transplantation; ...

Researchers working on a joint United States-China team are gaining a lot of attention for their most recent breakthrough. The team, which published its findings in the science journal Cell, managed ...

Few things in science freak people out more than human-animal hybrids. Named chimeras, after the mythical Greek creature that’s an amalgam of different beasts, these part-human, part-animal embryos ...