Pig Embryos Injected With Monkey Cells Successfully Brought To Full-Term For The First Time
Scientists in China have successfully brought to term piglets injected with monkey stem cells for the first time, bringing researchers one step closer to one day growing human organs inside of animals. The pig-monkey chimeras – an organism derived from two or more zygotes, or the eukaryotic cell formed during fertilization that contains essential DNA – were born in the Chinese lab Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology and looked otherwise normal. Scientists derived embryonic stem cells from crab-eating macaques, or cynomolgus monkeys, a species commonly used in and…
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