China’s Latest Cloned-Monkey Experiment Is an Ethical Mess
Chinese researcher have cloned five gene - delete monkeys with a host of transmissible disease symptom , agree to two scientific papers published today . The investigator say they want to use the gene - edited macaque for biomedical enquiry ; basically , they hope that organise sick primates will shorten the total number of macaque used in inquiry around the domain . But their experimentation is a minefield of ethical quandaries — and draw you wonder whether the potential benefits to scientific discipline are enough to justify all of the hurt to these scalawag ....