Being human, or at least human-looking, is not all it’s cracked up to be for one zoo monkey. According to Daily Mail, a Margarita Island capuchin living at China’s Tianjin Zoo is popular with visitors ...

A few weeks ago, scientists reported successfully growing human cells in monkey embryos, paving the way for creating live human–monkey chimeras. For many, this could open the door to great medical ...

In a controversial new study, Salk Institute researchers in California have grown human stem cells within a macaque monkey embryo. Weizhi Ji, Kunming University of Science and Technology Researchers ...

NEW YORK -- For the first time, researchers have used the cloning technique that produced Dolly the sheep to create healthy monkeys, bringing science an important step closer to being able to do the ...

Depending on your point of view, the creation of an embryo that is part-human and part-monkey is either a great opportunity for medical experts to create organs and tissues for human transplantation; ...

Over 600 monkeys moved out of Vrindaban. As urbanisation in the pilgrim city of Vrindaban has deprived the strong monkey population of its natural abode and food, the primates hav ...

Scientists in China may have created a new kind of monkey — and with it, a big ethical dilemma. Researchers inserted a human brain gene into monkeys, in an experiment with the potential to cross the ...

In a ground-breaking experiment, researchers have successfully created the first human-monkey chimera. The work, published in the journal Cell, describes the the first embryo containing both human and ...