Researchers plan to produce a whole herd of these monkeys, inserting genes that predispose them to a human disease so they can research cures. We share 98 percent of our genetic material with chimpanzees. We're not a lot farther from monkeys, baboons and gorillas. The photograph of the genetically engineered baby monkey showed a hand with dark nails that looked strangely like a woman's manicured hand. It gave me the shivers.
Primates are among the most endangered of the world's animals.
As the presidency of George W. Bush turbocharges the commodification of civic life, we're moving even faster toward a creepy, decadent world where oil rigs replace jungles and Baby Boomers live forever so they can pay top dollar for wonder drugs. This is a bad dream in which both human and animal life is perverted for the crass, stupid and, worst of all, unimaginative goal of simply making money. The story behind the county road department's fiasco at Thornydale Road. Amateur Night - Corporate media is partying like it's 1984.