Tipping Point Quick Hits (11.25.20)

Scientists splice human genes into monkey brains

In an experiment reminiscent of the Planet of the Apes films, geneticists in Germany and Japan have taken a human gene, ARHGAP11B, and placed it into the brain of the common marmoset, a very small species of monkey. The human gene directs stem cells in the human brain, and after introducing the gene into m…