{"id":12782,"date":"2024-06-24T09:12:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T09:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=12782"},"modified":"2024-06-24T09:12:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T09:12:21","slug":"humanzee-was-grown-in-a-lab-before-scientists-euthanized-it-not-long-afterwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=12782","title":{"rendered":"‘Humanzee’ was grown in a lab before scientists euthanized it not long afterwards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists were freaked out by what they had done<\/h2>\n

The world\u2019s first \u2018humanzee\u2019 was a success after being grown in a lab, before scientists euthanized it not long after.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s often thought that humans evolved from apes, but one group of\u00a0scientists<\/a>\u00a0decided to take that and warp it – creating a hybrid species.<\/p>\n

The first \u2018humanzee\u2019 was grown in a research centre in the 1920\u2019s, but was allegedly euthanised shortly after surrounding\u00a0ethical concerns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Queue everyone wondering why they couldn\u2019t have thought about that any sooner.<\/p>\n

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\"\u201cThey<\/div>\n

\u201cThey began to consider the moral and ethical considerations.\u201d (Getty stock image)<\/cite><\/div>\n

According to renowned evolutionary psychologist Gordon Gallup, the incident happened at a lab where he used to work.<\/p>\n

The so-called ‘Humanzee’ was created in\u00a0Florida<\/a>, with scientists panicking after the experiment was a success.<\/p>\n

At this point, you may quite reasonably ask, ‘Why would anyone attempt such a thing?’<\/p>\n

However, scientists claim that it could have massive ramifications with regards to growing human organs for transplants inside monkeys in the future.<\/p>\n

Not too long ago, a\u00a0Spanish<\/a>\u00a0scientist claimed that he has successfully grown the world’s first human\/monkey hybrid in a laboratory in\u00a0China<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to Juan Carlos Izpis\u00faa Belmonte, the hybrid embryo was viable and could have been born had the process not been aborted.<\/p>\n

However, according to Gallup, the practice of splicing together humans with our primate relations isn’t exactly new – as the process was attempted during the 20th century.<\/p>\n

Decades after the incident, Gallup told The Sun: \u201cOne of the most interesting cases involved an attempt which was made back in the 1920s in what was the first primate research centre established in the US in Orange Park, Florida.<\/p>\n

“They inseminated a female chimpanzee with human semen from an undisclosed donor and claimed not only that pregnancy occurred but the\u00a0pregnancy<\/a>\u00a0went full term and resulted in a live birth.<\/p>\n

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\""They<\/div>\n

“They inseminated a female chimpanzee.\u201d (Getty stock image)<\/cite><\/div>\n

“But in the matter of days, or a few weeks, they began to consider the moral and ethical considerations and the infant was euthanized.\u201d<\/p>\n

For those of you who failed\u00a0GCSE<\/a>\u00a0science, it means that scientists impregnated a monkey with human sperm. (Yes, really!)<\/p>\n

Not only that, but a hybrid child was born and then killed by aforementioned scientists – who were terrified by what they’d done.<\/p>\n

Gallup says that the professor who told him worked at the centre until it moved to another university in Atlanta, Georgia in 1930.<\/p>\n

Gordon Gallup is known for developing the ‘self-recognition’ technique that proved that primates can identify themselves in the mirror and are therefore self-aware.<\/p>\n

Whilst this sounds bananas, scientists are still using monkey embryos in labs to study how organs are grown in labs.<\/p>\n

Some have even managed to grow old embryos outside of the womb for up 25 days.<\/p>\n

Sounds like some scientists up to some monkey business, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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