外國科學家在中國培育人猴雜交體，反對者擔心自我意識覺醒…

World』s first human-monkey hybrid created, scientists reveal

科學家透露，目前已創造出世界上首個人猴雜交胚胎

來源：《獨立報》翻譯：世界播

Scientists say they have created the world』s first human-monkey hybrid in a laboratory in China.

科學家們表示，他們在中國的一個實驗室里創造了世界上第一個人猴雜交胚胎。

The researchers, who want to use animals to create organs for human life-saving transplants, say creating the hybrid was an important step.

研究人員希望利用動物來製造器官，將來應用於挽救人類生命的移植，他們還表示，創造混合胚胎是非常重要的一步。

And they pledged to continue their experiments using primates.

他們承諾繼續用靈長類動物進行實驗。

The team revealed that they had injected human stem cells capable of creating any type of tissue into a monkey embryo.

研究小組透露，他們已經將能夠產生任何組織的人類幹細胞注入了猴子胚胎。

The experiment was stopped before the embryo was old enough to be born.

不過在胚胎已成形到隨時能誕生之前，實驗就被中止了。

But the scientists – who were Spanish but held the trial in China – said a human-monkey hybrid could have potentially been born.

但科學家們表示，可能已經誕生了一種人猴雜交後代。這些科學家都是西班牙人，但他們在中國進行了這項試驗。

The embryo had first been genetically modified to deactivate genes that control organ growth.

胚胎首先經過基因改造，使控制器官生長的基因失去活性。

Ethical concerns were raised over the trial, partly over fears that human stem cells could migrate to the brain.

這項試驗引發了道德倫理方面的擔憂，部分原因是擔心人類幹細胞可能會轉移到大腦。

Angel Raya, of the Barcelona Regenerative Medicine Centre, said experiments on organisms with cells from two species faced 「ethical barriers」.

巴塞羅那再生醫學中心的安吉拉?拉亞表示，這項用兩種生物的細胞進行的實驗有一些「倫理方面的問題」。

He told El Pais: 「What happens if the stem cells escape and form human neurons in the brain of the animal? Would it have consciousness? And what happens if these stem cells turn into sperm cells?」

他告訴《國家報》:「如果幹細胞逃逸並在動物的大腦中發展出人類神經元，會發生什麼？它會產生自我意識嗎？如果這些幹細胞分化成了精子又會發生什麼？」

But Estrella Nunez, of Murcia Catholic University (UCAM) and the project collaborator, said mechanisms were put in place so that if human cells did migrate to the brain, they would self-destruct.

但該項目的合作者、穆爾西亞天主教大學的埃斯特雷拉?努涅斯則表示，他們已經建立了一些「自我毀滅」機制，如果人類細胞真的遷移到了猴子大腦，這些細胞就會「自殺」。

The research, which was financed largely by the university, was costly. 「If we combine the human/pig, human/rat and human/monkey research, it is many hundreds of thousands of euros,」 she said.

這項主要由牛津大學資助的研究耗資巨大。她透露：「如果我們把人豬、人鼠和人猴的研究結合起來，那將會耗費數十萬歐元。」

Juan Carlos Izpisua, who created the world』s first human-pig hybrid in 2017 and led the latest experiment, said: 「We are now trying not only to move forward and continue experimenting with human cells and rodent and pig cells, but also with non-human primates. Our country is a pioneer and a world leader in these investigations.」

胡安?卡洛斯?伊茲皮蘇亞在2017年創造了世界上第一個人豬雜交品種，他同時也是這項最新實驗的領頭人。他表示：「我們現在不僅要繼續前進，也要繼續嘗試人類細胞、嚙齒動物及豬細胞的結合，甚至還會嘗試使用非人類靈長類動物。我們的國家是這類科學研究的先驅和世界領導者。」

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