Salon

The bioethics of the first human-monkey hybrid embryo

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; ...
Popular Mechanics

Scientists Are Growing Human Organs In Animals—And It’s Working

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: With more than 100,000 people in need of an organ transplant in the U.S. alone, scientists have turned toward perfecting human-animal chimeras as a ...
The American Spectator

Human–Monkey Hybrids: Have We Crossed a Boundary?

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 ...
UPI

First human-monkey embryos create small step toward huge ethical problem

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 ...
Psychology Today

The Emotional Lives of Chimeras: Challenges to Anthrozoology

A number of people have asked me to weigh in on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recent announcement that they would like to lift the ban on research on animal-human chimera research. Basically ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

The Emerging Field of Human Neural Organoids, Transplants, and Chimeras: Science, Ethics, and Governance

THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 This activity was supported by contracts from the National Institutes of Health (Sponsor Award ...