To avoid ethical problems, this genome would be inserted not into a human cell but into a chimpanzee cell. The chimp cell would be reprogrammed to embryonic state and used to generate, in a chimpanzee’s womb, a mutant chimp embryo … Continue reading
In an article in the London Times Colin Blakemore wrote On the 200th anniversary of the birth of the most famous naturalist in history everyone wants to claim a piece of Darwin. Not just scientists, but humanists, atheists, philosophers, sociologists … Continue reading
Inside the Oxford animal lab
Go here to go to the Animals and Society Institute website and read my review of Elizabeth Hess’s new excellent book, Nim Chimpsky: The chimp who would be human.
Further revelations on this story of colony of monkeys killed in a research lab.
Primate scientists are criticizing a decision at the Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg, France, to kill a research colony of Tonkean macaques (Macaca tonkeana) last month because the animals were infected with the herpes B virus. The monkeys, at the … Continue reading
