Chinese scientists create monkeys with human brain genes

The single paper cited to justify the ethics of this experiment was authored by Dr Marilyn Coors, a medical ethicist and associate professor at the department of psychiatry at the University of Colorado. The paper cited here was the only paper she ever wrote concerning a non-human animal. She argued that non-ape primates are ethical targets for trangenic studies of human genes compared to apes, specifically because they are less likely to show "human-like phenotypes". Maybe that would be the case if they had altered liver or immune related genes, but they went straight for the human brain development genes. Not surprisingly, they found human-like phenotypes when they did it. By their own justification for the ethical defense for doing this study, they have shown themselves to be unethical. No further research on this line should be done, and Dr Coors should personally respond to how her paper was used to justify this disgusting experiment.