Scientist put human gene into monkeys to make them smarter, human like

The planet of the monkeys (or Apes) is in the making. Once that are as smart or smarter than we are, they will take over.
 
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If they're using DNA from a liberal, the results will be a freakishly stupid monkey. It won't do much more than throw and eat it's own shit.
 
Abstract
Brain size and cognitive skills are the most dramatically changed traits in humans during evolution, and yet the genetic mechanisms underlying these human-specific changes remain elusive. Here, we successfully generated 11 transgenic rhesus monkeys (8 first-generation and 3 second-generation) carrying human copies of MCPH1, an important gene for brain development and brain evolution. Brain image and tissue section analyses indicated an altered pattern of neural cell differentiation, resulting in a delayed neuronal maturation and neural fiber myelination of the transgenic monkeys, similar to the known evolutionary change of developmental delay (neoteny) in humans. Further brain transcriptome and tissue section analyses of major developmental stages showed a marked human-like expression delay of neuron-differentiation and synaptic signaling genes, providing a molecular explanation to the observed brain developmental delay of the transgenic monkeys. More importantly, the transgenic monkeys exhibited better short-term memory and shorter reaction time compared to the wild type controls in the delayed matching to sample task. The presented data represents the first attempt to experimentally interrogate the genetic basis of human brain origin using a transgenic monkey model, and it values the use of nonhuman primates in understanding human unique traits.
Transgenic rhesus monkeys carrying the human MCPH1 gene copies show human-like neoteny of brain development

The TG monkeys with the huMCPH1 transgene had smaller brains. The MCPH1 gene transplanted from humans actually made the TG monkeys caused a developmental delay during brain development.

From Luo et al. (2019)

We showed that the TG monkeys carrying the huMCPH1 transgene did not manifest an enlarged brain size, implying that a single gene likely has limited effect on neural progenitor pool proliferation during brain development. Alternatively, it is equally possible that the human-specific changes of MCPH1 may not enhance its known function in neuro-progenitor proliferation [22], rather they work on the unknown function of MCPH1 in neuronal maturation, neural plasticity and synapse signaling, which were supported by multiple lines of evidence presented in this study. Our analyses found a developmental delay of gray matter in the brain of the TG monkeys, suggesting that the huMCPH1 transgene may delay neuron differentiation and maturation during brain development.
 
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Between building intellectual robots and increasing the intelligence of animals what can go wrong?
 

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