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 ...

Scientists introduced a human gene, ARHGAP11B, into monkey fetuses. The gene caused an increase in the size of the monkey brains, including folding similar to that of human brains. The study poses ...

An article published April 15 in the journal Cell described how scientists took a blastocyst from a macaque and added human cells. A human-monkey chimeric blastocyst. Credit: Weizhi Ji/Kunming ...

Are these scientists trying to create a human-monkey hybrid? Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California have conducted a controversial experiment that entails growing human ...

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 ...

Our understanding of the human body has sky-rocketed in recent decades, opening doors for everything from brain-controlled prosthetics to world-changing mRNA vaccines. But there are still some secrets ...

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 ...

In a breakthrough new study, scientists have created human-monkey chimera embryos for the first time. These chimeras pave the way for more accurate models of human biology and disease, which could ...

A team of scientists from the U.S., China and elsewhere have developed embryos that are a mix of human and monkey cells for the first time in history. The embryos, which were detailed on Thursday in ...

The unnamed monkey is popular with guests at the Tianjin Zoo because of his "distressed man" expressions Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work ...