{"id":4723,"date":"2019-12-30T18:50:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T08:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/?p=4723"},"modified":"2020-01-02T18:51:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T08:51:06","slug":"scientists-put-a-human-intelligence-gene-into-a-monkey-other-scientists-are-concerned-discover-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/12\/30\/scientists-put-a-human-intelligence-gene-into-a-monkey-other-scientists-are-concerned-discover-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Put a Human Intelligence Gene Into a Monkey. Other Scientists are Concerned. | Discover Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Scientists adding human brain genes to monkeys \u2014 it\u2019s the kind of thing you\u2019d see in a movie like <i>Rise of the Planet of the Apes<\/i>. But Chinese researchers have done just that, improving the short-term memories of the monkeys in a study published in March in the Chinese journal <i>National Science Review<\/i>. While some experts downplayed the effects as minor, concerns linger over where the research may lead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovermagazine.com\/mind\/scientists-put-a-human-intelligence-gene-into-a-monkey-other-scientists-are\">Scientists Put a Human Intelligence Gene Into a Monkey. Other Scientists are Concerned. | Discover Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Absolutely nothing bad can come from this. Right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists adding human brain genes to monkeys \u2014 it\u2019s the kind of thing you\u2019d see in a movie like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4724,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4723\/revisions\/4724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}