Spanish scientists create 1st ever Human-Monkey embryo in China
R Sinduja
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Scientists from the Salk Institute in Spain successfully created the world's 1st Human-Monkey embryo in China to avoid legal issues, flagging a way towards using animals for human organ transplants. They genetically modified monkey embryos to deactivate genes that are vital to the organ formation & then injected human stem cells. But, they halted the process before embryo formed a CNS as it was in violation of Spanish law.
