If there’s one thing sci-fi movies have taught us over the year it’s that combining one animal with another animal almost always ends badly. Scientists in China aren’t trying to create mutant monsters, but they did successfully create baby pigs with monkey cells. Yes, you read that correctly.
As NewScientist reports, a team of researchers from the State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology in Beijing set about creating the first pig-monkey chimeras. A chimera is any organism that includes living cells of different genotypes. Put simply, the researchers added monkey cells to pig embryos, allowed mature female pigs to carry those embryos to term, and then observed the resulting piglets.
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Chinese scientists created ‘monkey pigs’ by adding primate cells to pig embryos originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 6 Dec 2019 at 21:34:39 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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