Chinese scientists have genetically engineered autistic monkeys

[Wireless News]

Scientists in China have successfully created monkeys that suffer from autism. Wait, what? Why would anyone do such a thing? It turns out that they believe creating autistic monkeys opens up new avenues for treating autism that haven't been explored before, as-Technology Review explains . FROM EARLIER:- Amazon has a daring ‘Plan B’ for stealing Android from Google "Years of studies with mice suffering from autism-like disorders have provided disappointingly few leads on how to solve the problem in people," the publication writes. "But mice have very different brains from our own. For instance, they lack a prefrontal cortex, the brain area where some human psychiatric disorders seem to be centered." Monkeys, of course, have brains that are much more

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