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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      7 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…