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Scientists Create Gene-Hacked Monkey That Glowed Green (futurism.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

New medicines are usually tested first in human tissue, then on mice, and finally on humans. To oversimplify a bit, the first checks if it will do the job, while the second checks if it could have side-effects in other organs. As to why monkeys are not used instead of mice, (1) they take longer to grow up, (2) they are more expensive to maintain, and (3) experimenting on monkeys is considered more of a bad thing than experimenting on mice.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I was kind of joking, kind of not, but thank you for this info.