Being human, or at least human-looking, is not all it’s cracked up to be for one zoo monkey. According to Daily Mail, a Margarita Island capuchin living at China’s Tianjin Zoo is popular with visitors ...

An article published April 15 in the journal Cell described how scientists took a blastocyst from a macaque and added human cells. A human-monkey chimeric blastocyst. Credit: Weizhi Ji/Kunming ...

Love can be one of life's greatest joys — but it can also be one of the greatest causes of heartbreak and distress, as a famous monkey in China seems to know too well. The Daily Mail reports that a ...

Are these scientists trying to create a human-monkey hybrid? Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California have conducted a controversial experiment that entails growing human ...

Scientists are locked in debate over the necessity of creating chimera embryos that contain both monkey and human cells. A study released on Thursday showed that human cells can indeed grow when ...

Scientists in China may have created a new kind of monkey — and with it, a big ethical dilemma. Researchers inserted a human brain gene into monkeys, in an experiment with the potential to cross the ...

What makes this latest announcement important is that no cloned primate has ever been born before; previously, scientists had only created cloned primate (and indeed human) embryos. Such cloned ...

A team of scientists from the U.S., China and elsewhere have developed embryos that are a mix of human and monkey cells for the first time in history. The embryos, which were detailed on Thursday in ...

Scientists in China have reportedly created part human, part monkey chimera embryos for the first time. The team hope the technique will bring animals used to grow human organs for transplantation a ...