New experiments reignite old ethics controversies. Scientists have created a line of monkeys carrying a gene that encodes a green fluorescent protein integrated into their DNA and passed on to their offspring. The research, published this week by a group of Japanese and American scientists in the British journal Nature, marks the first such accomplishment in primates and could lead to new models of human diseases including Parkinson's disease. Genes thought to predispose patients to developing Parkinson's disease could be transferred to the germ cells (eggs or sperm) or monkeys giving rise to offspring would carry the genes and enable deeper study of their contribution to disease and how the disease could be treated.
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