Two pigs with monkey cells were born for the first time in a Chinese laboratory, but they died within a week.

To create such a hybrid, on the fourth day after conception, scientists introduced pig embryos to artificially grown monkey cells. The cells were introduced into more than 4,000 embryos. Macaque-craboid DNA was found in the heart, liver, lungs, and skin of piglets.

As a result, only 10 individuals were born, two of them hybrids with a low cell ratio: one monkey cell per 1000 or 10 thousand pig cells. The main purpose of this study is to learn to grow human organs within animals in the future.