"Researchers led by Spanish scientist Juan Carlos Izpisúa have created for the first time a human-monkey hybrid in a laboratory in China – an important step towards using animals for human organ transplants, project collaborator Estrella Núñez confirmed to EL PAÍS." [2]
"[A]ccording to El País, Izpisúa Belmonte may have collaborated with monkey researchers in China to circumvent legal issues in the US and Spain, where research with primates is heavily regulated." [3]
"Under the new Japanese guidelines, a Japanese scientist, Dr Hiromitsu Nakauchi, is the first to receive government approval to produce animal embryos that have human cells and transplant them into surrogate animals...." [4]
"Hiromitsu Nakauchi, who leads teams at the University of Tokyo and Stanford University in California, plans to grow human cells in mouse and rat embryos and then transplant those embryos into surrogate animals. Nakauchi's ultimate goal is to produce animals with organs made of human cells that can, eventually, be transplanted into people." [5]
Is this where science is headed? [6]
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| Detail of Satan from The Last Judgment (c. 1583) by Jacob de Backer |
[1] https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/human-animal-hybrids-can-we-justify-the-experiments/
[2] https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/07/31/inenglish/1564561365_256842.html, quoted without hyperlinks.
[3] https://singularityhub.com/2019/08/13/wait-what-the-first-human-monkey-hybrid-embryo-was-just-created-in-china/
[4] https://www.bionews.org.uk/page_144752, quoted without hyperlinks.
[5] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02275-3
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satan
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