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 ...

For the first time, scientists have created embryos that are a mix of human and monkey cells. The embryos, described Thursday in the journal Cell, were created in part to try to find new ways to ...

Scientists have advanced human-animal chimera research by successfully growing human cells within the organs of mice. This development could bring experts closer to the goal of custom-growing human ...

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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 ...

Gleaning stem cells from cloned monkey embryos, as a team of Oregon researchers has done, is an impressive step. But it probably won't lead to medical treatments anytime soon. One hurdle is ethical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo collage of rhesus monkeys on top of microscope photography of cells. Researchers in China have successfully cloned the first ...

A newly discovered quirk of primate cell biology suggests that monkeys – and humans – are impossible to clone from adult cells using current techniques. The finding directly contradicts claims by ...