In a controversial new study, Salk Institute researchers in California have grown human stem cells within a macaque monkey embryo. Weizhi Ji, Kunming University of Science and Technology Researchers ...

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 ...

In a breakthrough new study, scientists have created human-monkey chimera embryos for the first time. These chimeras pave the way for more accurate models of human biology and disease, which could ...

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 ...

A tiny monkey that went viral on social media for his human-like face is not lucky in love. And it may be because he’s a bit of a jerk. According to zookeepers at Tianjin Zoo in eastern China, the ...

The part-human, part-monkey embryos were kept alive for 20 days, giving researchers enough time to learn about how animal and human cells communicate Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents ...

An international team of researchers led by the Salk Institute biologist Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte report in Cell that they have created the world's first human-monkey embryos. Their goal is not to ...

In a ground-breaking experiment, researchers have successfully created the first human-monkey chimera. The work, published in the journal Cell, describes the the first embryo containing both human and ...

Scientists injected dozens of human stem cells into developing monkey embryos, and the resulting hybrids survived for up to 20 days in lab dishes. These human-monkey embryos could someday serve as ...

The unnamed monkey is popular with guests at the Tianjin Zoo because of his "distressed man" expressions Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work ...

Scientists have successfully created the first embryos containing both human and monkey cells, an important step in helping researchers find ways to produce organs for transplants. The results of the ...