{"id":115956,"date":"2020-11-17T06:22:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/uh-oh-scientists-used-human-genes-to-make-monkey-brains-bigger"},"modified":"2020-11-17T06:22:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:22:34","slug":"uh-oh-scientists-used-human-genes-to-make-monkey-brains-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/uh-oh-scientists-used-human-genes-to-make-monkey-brains-bigger","title":{"rendered":"Uh-Oh, Scientists Used Human Genes to Make Monkey Brains Bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uh-oh-scientists-used-human-genes-to-make-monkey-brains-bigger.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did the worm thing so I might as well bring up the monkey thing.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In an experiment that could portend a real-life <em>Planet of the Apes <\/em>situation<em><\/em>, scientists spliced human genes into the fetus of a monkey to substantially increase the size of the primate\u2019s brain. And it worked.<\/p>\n<p>Dive deeper. \u27a1 Get unlimited access to the weird world of Pop Mech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did the worm thing so I might as well bring up the monkey thing. In an experiment that could portend a real-life Planet of the Apes situation, scientists spliced human genes into the fetus of a monkey to substantially increase the size of the primate\u2019s brain. And it worked. Dive deeper. \u27a1 Get unlimited [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115956","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\/517"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}