Grateful Monkeys

Glowing yellow fingertips and fluorescent green eyes and bells instead of toes!

Technique can therefore be recognised as the backdrop of a culture which presupposes the value of efficiency and rational solutions above all others. Here the contrast between modern Technique and past technological progress can be made clear; in the past they had other values which they considered at least as important as efficiency.

China has unveiled the world's first living 'chimeric' monkey - an animal created in a lab using special cells - which has glowing yellow fingertips and fluorescent green eyes.

The bizarre-looking creature, a male long-tailed macaque, is the first ever primate to be created with cells from two embryos of the same species, which researchers fused together.

The team used cells from seven-day-old embryos and mixed them with a five-day-old embryo before implanting the combination into female macaques.

While most animals contain mixed cells from their parents, the chimeric monkey was born with several that are genetically distinct - holding distinct DNA from each biological parent, the two embryos.

The baby monkey's body had many donor cells detected from both embryos in the brain, heart, kidney, liver, gastrointestinal tract, testes, and the cells that turn into sperm.

The team in China said the work has vast implications, such as allowing them to increase animal populations that are on the brink of extinction and learning more about IVF.

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