guac: "Scientists Grow Bigger Monkey Brains Using Human Genes, Replicating Evolution https://interestingengineering.com/scientists-grow-bigger-monkey-brains-using-human-genes-replicating-evolution"

Scientists Grow Bigger Monkey Brains Using Human Genes, Replicating Evolution interestingengineeri...

publisher

interestingengineering

date published

Friday June 19th, 2020

author

Fabienne Lang

summary

Scientists have successfully grown a monkey brain to be larger than its regular size by using a human brain gene, replicating that historical moment when humans and primates were set apart.