{"id":164237,"date":"2023-05-19T18:19:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T23:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/international-team-creates-first-chimeric-human-monkey-embryos"},"modified":"2023-05-19T18:19:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T23:19:43","slug":"international-team-creates-first-chimeric-human-monkey-embryos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/international-team-creates-first-chimeric-human-monkey-embryos","title":{"rendered":"International team creates first chimeric human-monkey embryos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/international-team-creates-first-chimeric-human-monkey-embryos3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Year 2022<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Experiments such as this one cannot be funded with federal research dollars, though they break no U.S. laws. The work was conducted in China, not because it was illegal in the United States, the researchers said, but because the monkey embryos, which are difficult to procure and expensive, were available there. The experiment used a total of 150 embryos, which were obtained without harming the monkeys, \u201cjust like in the IVF procedure,\u201d Tan said.<\/p>\n<p>But such experiments, which combine human cells with those of animals, are nevertheless controversial. This work, and other work by Izpisua Belmonte, has moved so rapidly, bioethicists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/08\/07\/pig-human-chimera-izpisua-belmonte\/\">have had trouble keeping up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe complicated thing is that we need better models of human disease, but the better those models are, the closer they bring us to the ethical issues we were trying to avoid by not doing experiments in humans,\u201d Farahany said. \u201cRemarkable steps forward require urgent public engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 2022 Experiments such as this one cannot be funded with federal research dollars, though they break no U.S. laws. The work was conducted in China, not because it was illegal in the United States, the researchers said, but because the monkey embryos, which are difficult to procure and expensive, were available there. The experiment [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164237","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}