In this regard, the team of researchers that has developed the animals, which have been termed as chimeras, by fusing together amid three and six embryos taken from various rhesus monkeys during the preliminary phases of their progression.
All the three animals were reportedly developed at the lab, twins and a singleton, and were claimed to be fit and fine in terms of general health, without having any kind of evident birth flaws after the completion of the controversial method for creating the monkeys.
While expressing his opinion regarding the development of the animals, the lead researcher Shoukhrat Mitalipov said that the chimeras have organs and tissues which have been created by using cells from all of the rhesus monkey embryos. The well-thought medley of cells hosted around six different genomes.
The lead author of the study, Mitalipov further said: “The cells never fuse, but they stay together and work together to form tissues and organs. The possibilities for science are enormous”.
The singleton was named “Chimero” by the scientists, while the twins were named Roku and Hex, which mean six in Japanese and Greek tongue. Hex was developed by amalgamating six different embryos. The reports, which have been made available in the journal Cell, stated: “To our knowledge, these infants are the world's first primate chimeras”.
In biological terms, all the three monkeys are male, though blood tests have claimed that Roku was hosting cells related to both male and female.
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