(Fox News) – A computer scientist who is credited as a researcher on a Chinese medical experiment that saw monkey brains implanted with human genes to make them more human, has slammed the project as ethically unacceptable. Dr. Martyn Styner, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina, has distanced himself from the experiment after the group of Chinese scientists who led it became the target of a medical ethics debate. Dr. Styner argues the knowledge gained from messing with monkey brains in
this way was not enough to go through with it. The research, funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and led by the country’s Kunming Institute of Zoology, saw the creation of 11 transgenic monkeys that carried human copies of the MCPH1 gene (Microcephalin 1). The group wanted to observe how the gene affected monkey brain development. It’s the latest series of mutant monkeys to be born in recent years as a result of Chinese medical research. READ MORE