{"id":85128,"date":"2019-04-13T14:55:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T09:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3655"},"modified":"2019-04-13T14:55:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T09:25:25","slug":"scientists-insert-human-brain-genes-into-monkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-insert-human-brain-genes-into-monkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists insert human brain genes into monkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In a study on evolution of human intelligence, Chinese scientists have implanted human versions of MCPH1 gene in rhesus monkeys. MCPH1 gene is believed to play a role in the development of the human brain.<\/li><li>The study which has been published in the journal <em>National Science Review, <\/em>was conducted by researchers at the Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences in collaboration researchers at the University of North Carolina, U.S<\/li><li>The study has found that the monkeys\u2019 brains, like those of humans, took longer time to develop. Further, experimented monkeys performed better in tests of short-term memory as well as reaction time compared to wild monkeys. However, the brains did not grow larger. <\/li><li>The experiment changing monkey\u2019s behaviour and intelligence has raised ethical issues. Bioethicists have opined that human efforts to alter or modify animal behaviour is unethical and cause them harm. <\/li><li>They have further added that adding human brain genes to a monkey is ethically unacceptable as it attempts to change how a monkey perceives and interacts with reality.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a study on evolution of human intelligence, Chinese scientists have implanted human versions of MCPH1 gene in rhesus monkeys. MCPH1 gene is believed to play a role in the development of the human brain. The study which has been published in the journal National Science Review, was conducted by researchers at the Kunming Institute&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-insert-human-brain-genes-into-monkeys\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scientists insert human brain genes into monkeys<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2308,2309],"class_list":["post-85128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-bioethics","tag-human-gene-into-monkeys","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700661449},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}