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Researchers build a better monkey – but are humans next?
So Japanese scientists have created “transgenic” primates — inserting a jellyfish fluorescence gene into 80 monkey embryos, producing a new line of research animals with skin that glows green under ultraviolet light!
And the same technique could produce monkeys with Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and other diseases, helping scientists research treatments on animals nearly identical to humans.
But this also highlights the controversial possibility of inserting genes into humans. “The debate over this issue during the 21st Century is likely to be as large — or larger — than Roe v. Wade is today.”
