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The lab-born primate, developed by Chinese scientists, made history as the world's first live-born "chimeric" monkey. And: he glowed! Green!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It’s great that peak scientific minds are trying to create green, glowing monkeys. It’s not like humanity is bothered by plethora of problems. Let’s chill and torture some monkeys instead.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah they just doing this for no reason /s.

Did you even read the article?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Did you? It says that it at one point MIGHT be useful to chimerize the monkeys to research neurodegenrative diseases. Making it glowing was just to make shit easier for them, not for any scientific purposes.

And yeah, I get it, scientific breakthrough comes with a cost, but there’s reason why primates are not generally getting chimerized…

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You probably fail to understand that the end goal is not to make green glowing monkeys for shits and giggles.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

He's going to break the Sarcasm-O-Meter, please be careful. It never stood a chance at life :/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No shit. I thought they wanted to have a mobile lantern.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ya but how many asses does it have?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

When will we learn not to play God half-assed