Researchers made human-monkey chimeras, by adding human stem cells to monkey embryos. Some embryos were cultured for 19 days after fertilisation.
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A growing international divide over cutting-edge medical research could worsen predatory practices, medical tourism and health inequality.
The idea of human-animal hybrids can raise a lot of questions and it’s easy to feel they are “unnatural” because they violate the boundaries between species.
The concept of creating human-animal hybrids can be eerie, but that’s only because of the way our minds tend to categorise things.
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Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor - Emerging Technologies (Stem Cells) at The University of Melbourne and Group Leader - Stem Cell Ethics & Policy at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Lecturer in Bioethics, Monash University & Honorary fellow, Melbourne Law School, Monash University
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Assistant Professor, Durham University
