A “chimaera monkey” with glowing fingertips and fluorescent green eyes has been created by Chinese scientists in a world first.
Chimeras are animals which contain groups of cells from two or more organisms with distinct types of DNA.The animal’s original embryo was injected with stem cells from a donor that were made to glow thanks to fluorescent tags attached by scientists.The team in China, which has reported its work in the journal Cell, said its work has vast implications - from understanding more about devastating conditions such as motor neurone disease to finding ways to help conserve threatened species.
Professor Mu-Ming Poo, scientific director of the Institute of Neuroscience at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said: "Just having several cells are partially distributed all over the monkey body with no real formation or clear structures - you cannot really say that is chimera, strictly speaking."So the difference here is that now we have a very high level of contribution, with the donor cells forming a big part of the tissues complex structures all over the monkey body.
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