Chinese scientists are making human-monkey hybrid embryos

[Espry0n]

I wonder if they can vocalize language and/or have a tail. That’d be cool.

[BakaNeko]

Monkeys can discern the order of items in a list, a skill that may help them manage their social lives

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/01/monkeys-can-discern-the-order.html …

[hecep]

Per one of the research scientists: “In the long run, such basic research will also provide valuable information for the analysis of the etiology and treatment of human brain diseases (such as autism) caused by abnormal brain development,” he told [CNN].

My dark side believes China wants to create a controllable (read: cheap) labor force.

[BakaNeko]

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Brave_New_World/Castes

[hecep]

Koo, koo, katchoo.

[BakaNeko]

@RickMycroft

“Not to chase other Men; that is the Law. Are we not Men?”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q._Are_We_Not_Men%3F_A:_We_Are_Devo!

[BakaNeko]

Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov

[ChuckV]

[Scientist]

@theodore604

If it’s thousands of human lives vs thousands of monkey lives?

Except its not that at all.
The choice is more taking thousands of monkey lives on the highly unlikely chance that afterwards someone will figure out a new way to help humans that couldn’t have been accomplished by not killing the monkeys.

@xhonk

There’s a lot of potentially interesting science to discover along the way here

Is there? Science that couldn’t be researched in a much cheaper, less risky, more ethical way? Not a rhetorical question. Maybe I’m just missing something, but it seems like research into causes of organ rejection and how to avoid it could be done in a lot better ways without the problems of the whole man-monkey hybrid thing

[al_packer]

That explains Trump.

[Shuck]

@theodore604

That’s nice. I’ll be waiting for you.

Laughs all around!

[Cubist]

Read Robin Cook’s Chromosome 6 to see where this is all going.

[rob_dobbs]

You have to have human-monkey hybrids before you can develop Sea Monkeys.

[IpoNokaoi]

Nonono, you just raise that political prisoner class from embryos in controlled lab-environment.

[ludd]

Ahem…attention previous respondents:
Why not use political prisoners? They DO use political prisoners!
The organ donor thing is not big in China. OTOH the organ farming thing has quite a track record. I could tell you more…but I digress.

Instead of Monkeys they might find Pigs a better prospect - similar metabolism and - double bonus - you can eat the leftovers. And a surfeit of production could send the overabundance into a political career - then, when you need to purge, its pork and all the crackle.
Win Win - as they say.

[peregrinus_bis]

But this gets us MonkeyWarriors. Forget Universal Soldier.

If they’re spider monkeys - I mean, c’mon. Bonobos? Ohhhh … they’d be so nice.

But angry Chimpumans?? Awesome battle warriors!

Like The Wizard of Oz!

[SqualusAcanthias]

@theodore604

I’d prefer it be grown in a human clone of myself (ala The Island, or never let me go).

That’s a hell of a fucked up proposition.

[anothernewbbaccount]

@spejic

You guys are missing David_Friedman’s point. China is already using political prisoners for organ harvesting, killing them as needed.

No, that was kind of my point. Monkeys lets them dispense with the political prisoner strategy for transplants.

[lumbercartel]

The fact that they’re harvesting organs from prisoners doesn’t change the fact that organs from any human other than their own clones is a problem due to immune system rejection of the replacement organ. Organs from the patient’s own clone, though, can be used without risk of rejection.

[Tamsin_Bailey]

Man donates mother's body to science, discovers it was sold to the military for "blast testing"

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/01/horrifying.html …

Chinese scientists are making human-monkey hybrid embryos

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/01/chinese-scientists-are-making.html …

I get the feeling somebody wants to make a Baboom.