Fri. 04/16 - Human-Monkey Chimera Embryos Are a Reality Now

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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🗓️ 16 April 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Scientists have created human-monkey hybrid embryos––yes, you heard that right. Archaeologists have found an entire lost city in Egypt. We have even more pterosaur news this week! And a very delicious false alarm in Krakow. Sponsors: Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Skillshare, Get a free trial of Premium Membership at skillshare.com/kottke Links: Scientists Created the First Embryo With Human and Non-Human Primate Cells (TIME) Embryos That Are Part Monkey, Part Human Raise Ethical Concerns (NPR) Controversial 'Chimera' Embryos Made by Scientists Are Part Human, Part Monkey (Science Alert) First monkey–human embryos reignite debate over hybrid animals (Nature) Archaeologists discover 3,000 year-old 'lost' city in Egypt (CNN) 'Lost golden city of Luxor' discovered by archaeologists in Egypt (National Geographic) Archaeologists find “lost golden city” buried under sand for 3,400 years (Wired) Adorable 'Porg' Pterosaur Flapped Above Jurassic China (Gizmodo) Mystery tree beast turns out to be croissant (BBC) Krakow's very own lizard cryptid turns out to be a croissant (A/V Club) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	welcome to the cocky ride home for friday April 16th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.
0:42.3	Scientists have created human, monkey, hybrid embryos. Yes, you heard that right.
0:49.9	Archaeologists have found an entire lost city in Egypt.
0:55.0	We have even more terasaur news this week and a very delicious false alarm in Krakow, Poland.
1:03.0	Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:08.0	Well, it happened.
1:10.0	Scientists created the first human monkey chimera embryo, a series of embryos
1:15.9	grown with both human and monkey cells that lived for at longest 19 days. As I'm sure you can
1:22.7	imagine, the experiment has drawn quite a bit of controversy. Quoting nature, in the work published on April 15th
1:29.6	in Cell, the team injected monkey embryos with human stem cells and watched them develop. They
1:35.0	observed human and monkey cells divide and grow together in a dish with at least three embryos
1:39.9	surviving to 19 days after fertilization. Researchers hope that some human animal hybrids,
1:45.7	known as chimeras, could provide better models in which to test drugs and be used to grow
1:50.6	human organs for transplants. Members of this research team were the first to show in 2019
1:56.1	that they could grow monkey embryos in a dish for up to 20 days after fertilization. In 2017, they reported
2:02.8	a series of other hybrids, pig embryos grown with human cells, cow embryos grown with human
2:08.4	cells, and rat embryos grown with mouse cells. But the latest work has divided developmental
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