Scientists genetically modified monkeys, 'Planet of the Apes'-style -- but it's not what you think

Yan-Hong Nie Autism, a complex set of brain disorders of social interaction and communication, has been widely studied in lab animals — but most of the research has been in mice, whose brains are very different from those of people. Now, for the first time, a team of scientists in China has created monkeys whose DNA has been genetically altered to make them develop an autism-like disorder. These "transgenic" monkeys could be a good model for studying human brain disorders, since their brain c...