Has no one seen all five Planet of the Apes movies?
The monkey, which lived for 10 days before being euthanized, was made by combining stem cells from a cynomolgus monkey — also known as a crab-eating or long-tailed macaque, a primate used in biomedical research — with a genetically distinct embryo from the same monkey species. It’s the world’s first live birth of a primate chimera created with stem cells, the researchers said.
Something quite similar to this happens naturally in humans, where one embryo absorbs its twin in the womb. The real reprehensible thing about this is how the scientists throw out the baby monkey like it’s trash right afterwards. Is infanticide only bad when it’s done to humans?
the monkey lived for 10 days before being euthanized
Why? If the monkey was biologically viable, what’s the point of killing it?
These labs go through thousands of animals a month probably
