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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Head Ethics, Education & Policy in Stem Cell Science and Convener of Stem Cells Australia, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow of Philosophy, University of Oxford
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Resarch Fellow in Biomedical Ethics, Melbourne Law School and Murdoch Children's Research Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor, Durham University
