Mutant Monkeys Bred To Contract Brain Disorder


	Mutant Monkeys Bred To Contract Brain Disorder

Steve McGookin

5-19-2008 9:34 AM

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Monkeys have been genetically engineered to contract Huntington’s disease in a
controversial experiment that could aid the development of treatments for
the brain disorder.
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The rhesus macaque monkeys carry the mutant gene that causes Huntington’s in
humans and are the first primate models of the disease.
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The use of genetic engineering to produce monkeys with so serious and
distressing a disease has raised strong objections from animal rights
groups. Of the five GM monkeys born, three were so severely affected by the
mutant genes that they swiftly died.
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