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Test Monkeys' Offspring Pick Up Genetic Modification

Posted May 28, 2009 9:15 AM

From Wash Post Technology:

Scientists have created the first genetically modified monkeys that can pass their new genetic attributes to their offspring, an advance designed to give researchers new tools for studying human disease but one that raises many thorny ethical questions.

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Re: Test Monkeys' Offspring Pick Up Genetic Modification

05/29/2009 3:28 PM

Didn't "Planet of the Apes" start this way?

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