For the first time, scientists have created embryos that are a mix of human and monkey cells. The embryos, described Thursday in the journal Cell, were created in part to try to find new ways to ...

Image of the human-monkey embryo; human cells are labelled in red Credit - Weizhi Ji, Kunming University of Science and Technology In a ground-breaking experiment, researchers have successfully ...

Scientists injected human stem cells into macaque embryos into a study on human development. Some of the embryos continued to develop for 20 days, researchers said. But the experiment has sparked an ...

You may be wondering why scientists would create a part-human part-monkey embryo — and you’re not alone. An international team of scientists said they created hybrid embryos, or chimeras, to see if ...

Seven years after the first gene-edited babies were revealed, biotech startup Manhattan Genomics is reviving the idea of ...

NEW YORK -- Scientists in Oregon say they've reached the long-sought goal of cloning monkey embryos and extracting stem cells from them, a potentially major step toward doing the same thing in people.

Gleaning stem cells from cloned monkey embryos, as a team of Oregon researchers has done, is an impressive step. But it probably won't lead to medical treatments anytime soon. One hurdle is ethical ...

A 25-day-old monkey embryo stained with fluorescent dye for visibility. Credit: Zhai et al/Cell/DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2023.04.019 Scientists have successfully nurtured lab-grown monkey embryos for 25 ...