Scientists in China created piglets whose organs contained some monkey cells. The piglets all died within a week, illustrating the challenges ahead as researchers work toward the goal of growing human organs inside other animals.
These pig-monkey chimeras are a scientific first, but to be clear, we're not talking about some kind of dystopian half-pig, half-monkey. Rather, these animals were mostly pigs, but with a dash of monkey thrown in.
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