{"id":107207,"date":"2020-05-17T10:42:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T17:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-are-making-human-monkey-hybrids-in-china"},"modified":"2020-05-17T10:42:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T17:42:18","slug":"scientists-are-making-human-monkey-hybrids-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-are-making-human-monkey-hybrids-in-china","title":{"rendered":"Scientists are making human-monkey hybrids in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Circa 2019.<\/p>\n

Gain of function research was heavily debated amidst many CDC mishaps. It was stopped, and then outsourced to China due to lax regulations. Now we have an outbreak that no one can confirm it\u2019s origin, but the epicenter is in close proximity to a Wuhan lab working on the same pathogen, with direct bat to human transmission.<\/p>\n

Knowing this, this story disturbs me, as we have no international protocols and regulations to prevent mishaps. The last thing we need is a lab mishap, and monkeys riding on horses with guns, all pissed off at humans. We are already experiencing the Contagion movie, and biblical plagues like locusts, the last we need is planet of the apes.<\/p>\n

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In a controversial first, a team of researchers have been creating embryos that are part human and part monkey, reports the Spanish daily El Pa\u00eds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Daring biologist:<\/strong> According to the newspaper, the Spanish-born biologist Juan Carlos Izpis\u00faa Belmonte, who operates a lab at the Salk Institute in California, has been working working with monkey researchers in China to perform the disturbing research.<\/p>\n

Their objective is to create \u201chuman-animal chimeras,\u201d in this case monkey embryos to which human cells are added.<\/p>\n

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Circa 2019. Gain of function research was heavily debated amidst many CDC mishaps. It was stopped, and then outsourced to China due to lax regulations. Now we have an outbreak that no one can confirm it\u2019s origin, but the epicenter is in close proximity to a Wuhan lab working on the same pathogen, with direct [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}