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For the first time ever, an international team of scientists have created chimera embryos that are made up of both human and monkey cells, as NPR reports.

Organ Grinder

"Our goal is not to generate any new organism, any monster."

For First Time Ever, Scientists Create Part-Human, Part-Monkey Embryos

Elon Musk's Neuralink has shown off an impressive new feat: a nine year old macaque called Pager playing a game of pong only using the signals in its brain.

Where My Peer Reviews At

Devices

"It's not magic."

Neuralink Releases Video of Monkey Playing Pong With Its Mind

NASA euthanized all 27 of its primates at the agency's Ames research center in California in February 2019, The Guardian reports.

"Shame on those responsible."

NASA Killed All Its Monkeys on the Same Day, Investigation Reveals

A neural net hooked up to a monkey brain was tasked with triggering individual neurons. It did so with bizarre, surreal images.

Neural Neural Net

The algorithm worked out the ideal image to show each neuron.

A Neural Net Hooked Up to a Monkey Brain Spat Out Bizarre Images

One of the scientists behind an experiment that gave monkeys human DNA, thereby making them smarter, has defended the controversial study to CNN.

Not Monkeying Around

"We will continue our exploration."

Chinese Scientist Defends Splicing Human Brain Gene Into Monkeys

A team of Chinese scientists just unveiled five cloned monkeys produced from the cells of a monkey whose genes they edited with CRISPR-Cas9.

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