  Alternatively, if researchers adequately respected the chimeric research subject’s newly enhanced status, then this objection would not apply to the research. But respecting the subject’s newly enhanced status would most likely frustrate the researcher’s aims since most biomedical research on non-human animals is done on non-humans precisely because it involves procedures that plainly would be unethical if performed on individuals with the moral status of a normal human adult. And even if the researchers were willing to try to respect the subject’s newly enhanced status, it is hard to imagine that they could come close to succeeding: what kind of life are they proposing to provide for this individual they have created and who is now under their care? Moreover, even if the research in question would be compatible with the protections due to an individual with the moral status of a normal human adult, another objection would then apply, at least when the research is intended to provide human-relevant information. Regular, non-chimeric humans will typically provide a better model in which to learn about human development and in which to test possible therapies intended for human beings. Thus, it would be scientifically preferable to perform the research procedures on regular human beings rather than on chimeras. To insist on performing such research on enhanced human/non-human chimeras when they could ethically be performed on human beings, then, would be scientifically unjustified and would arguably constitute unethical exploitation of the chimera for the benefit of others.