The first true chimeric monkey is born ‘glowing’ with two sets of DNA
In what sounds a little like the opening scenes from a sci-fi horror film, a team of scientists has taken seven-day-old monkey embryo stem cells and injected them into an unrelated four-to-five-day embryo from the same species, which was then injected into a female monkey. The female monkey later delivered a fully formed male, making it the world’s first live birth of a chimeric non-human primate.While scientists have used this method to create both monkey-human embryos (which were terminated before further development)…