January 6, 2020
Scientists Put a Human Intelligence Gene Into a Monkey. Other Scientists are Concerned.
Scientists Put a Human Intelligence Gene Into a Monkey. Other Scientists are Concerned.
Scientists adding human brain genes to monkeys — it’s the kind of thing you’d see in a movie like Rise of the Planet of the Apes. But Chinese researchers have done just that, improving the short-term memories of the monkeys in a study published in March in the Chinese journal National Science Review. While some experts downplayed the effects as minor, concerns linger over where the research may lead