{"id":89394,"date":"2019-04-10T10:02:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T17:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/chinese-scientists-gene-hacked-super-smart-human-monkey-hybrids"},"modified":"2019-04-10T10:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T17:02:27","slug":"chinese-scientists-gene-hacked-super-smart-human-monkey-hybrids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/chinese-scientists-gene-hacked-super-smart-human-monkey-hybrids","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Scientists Gene-Hacked Super Smart Human-Monkey Hybrids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-scientists-gene-hacked-super-smart-human-monkey-hybrids2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But not everyone is on board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe use of transgenic monkeys to study human genes linked to brain evolution is a very risky road to take,\u201d University of Colorado geneticist James Sikela told the <em>MIT Technology Review<\/em>. \u201cIt is a classic slippery slope issue and one that we can expect to recur as this type of research is pursued.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pinpointing the gene\u2019s role in intelligence could help scientists understand how humans evolved to be so smart, <em>MIT Tech<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/chinese-scientists-super-monkeys-human-brain-genes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But not everyone is on board. \u201cThe use of transgenic monkeys to study human genes linked to brain evolution is a very risky road to take,\u201d University of Colorado geneticist James Sikela told the MIT Technology Review. \u201cIt is a classic slippery slope issue and one that we can expect to recur as this type [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,385,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-evolution","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89394","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=89394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}