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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...