Monkey

I mean, it makes sense The crossover we’ve all been waiting for has finally been announced: The Lucasarts classic is coming to Sea of Thieves as part of its Legend of Monkey Island update. The Secret of Monkey Island first launched in 1990, and is one of my favorite games of all times. Meanwhile, Sea of Thieves is one of those games that I’ve wanted to get around to, but absolutely haven’t in all the years it’s been available. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOWILvQGVz4 The trailer for Sea of Thieves: The Legend of…

Google has withdrawn a gaming app that allowed players to buy, sell and torture black virtual "slaves" after a racism outcry in Brazil.Dubbed "Slavery Simulator," the Portuguese-language game saw players trade in slaves and strategize to prevent the abolition of slavery in order to amass virtual riches. The prosecutor's office said it had opened an investigation for "hate speech" related to the game downloaded by hundreds of people. The app itself had come with a disclaimer condemning "all types of slavery" and insisting…

Scientists have cultivated monkey embryos in the laboratory long enough to watch the beginning of organ formation and the development of the nervous system — milestones that are difficult to observe in embryos growing in the uterus. The embryos reached the age of 25 days, making them what might be the oldest primate embryos to be grown outside the womb. Independent teams described the findings in separate papers in Cell on 11 May. “It’s very impressive,” says Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, a developmental biologist at the…

Cult of Carnage: Misery #1 brings us more symbiote madness with Carnage and Anti-Venom on a lab monkey. Disaster or genius? You decide.Published Mon, 01 May 2023 23:26:09 -0500 by Jude Terror | Well, folks, gather 'round for another wild ride through the magical world of comic book creativity! Cult of Carnage: Misery #1 is set to hit your local comic stores on Wednesday, May 3rd, and you're about to see what happens when science meets chaos. Taking on the all-important task of joining the ranks of the plethora of symbiote…

Authorities in Colombia last month suspended studies at a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported malaria research facility, weeks after seizing more than 100 owl monkeys there that had been mistreated, according to a government probe. The couple that runs the operation also falsified ethics approvals for both human and animal studies that could affect at least 24 papers published in Nature Communications, Redox Biology, Vaccine, PLOS ONE, PLOS…

Coming to a forest clearing, a monkey sees a tasty banana in a jar. He reaches in and grabs it, but then finds himself unable to extricate both his hand and the fruit. Rather than abandon his prize, the monkey stays there, immobilised, until the humans who set the monkey trap return. This perhaps apocryphal hunting method furnishes the guiding metaphor for the poet and novelist Hamilton-Paterson’s book. We are all that stuck monkey, refusing to let go of the treats of modern civilisation that will surely doom us.This is a…

To probe the mysterious early stages of development, researchers have concocted a variety of embryo stand-ins from mouse or human stem cells. Now, scientists in China have created the first monkey versions. These pseudoembryos should more closely reflect human development than their mouse equivalents. And unlike human embryo mimics, they can be inserted into females to help scientists better understand the beginnings of pregnancy—and why it often fails. “The…

But within 20 days of transfer, the monkey blastoids stopped developing and seemed to come apart, say Liu and colleagues, who published their results in the journal Cell Stem Cell. This suggests the blastoids still aren’t perfect replicas of normal embryos, says Alfonso Martinez Arias, a developmental biologist at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. For the time being, “it clearly doesn’t work,” he says. That might be because a typical embryo is generated from an egg, which is then fertilized by sperm. A…

Rivron’s laboratory was the first to create these embryo-like structures in 2018. His team showed that mouse stem cells can self-organize into structures that resemble a blastocyst, which forms five or six days after sperm fertilizes an egg. They dubbed the balls of cells “blastoids.” Then in 2021, several labs showed they could create human blastoids using stem cells. And last year, researchers at the University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology reported that they created mouse structures mimicking…

Scientists in China this week say they’ve accomplished a first in bioengineering: creating embryo-like structures from monkey stem cells. The structures were implanted in surrogate female monkeys and briefly grew but did not become viable fetuses. The research may eventually help us better understand the earliest moments of human development and how it can go awry, the study authors say.A Mononykus Hunts In ‘Prehistoric Planet’In recent years, scientists have inched closer toward creating entire “synthetic” embryos,…