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This hybrid baby monkey is made of cells from two embryos

The work paves the way for scientists to use chimeric primates to study human diseases.
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Scientists have produced an infant ‘chimeric’ monkey by injecting a monkey embryo with stem cells from a genetically distinct donor embryo1. The resulting animal is the first live-born chimeric primate to have a high proportion of cells originating from donor stem cells.

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Nature 623, 468-469 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03473-w

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  1. Cao, J. et al. Cell https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.10.005 (2023).

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