Ethicists Offer Advice for Testing Human Brain Cells in Primates
| Abstract | If stem cells ever show promise in treating diseases of the human brain, any potential therapy would need to be tested in animals. But putting human brain stem cells into monkeys or apes could raise awkward ethical dilemmas, like the possibility of generating a humanlike mind in a chimpanzee's body | |||||||||
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