China Breaks a Cloning Barrier: Primates
The development heralds the possibility of genetically engineered primates for drug testing, gene editing and brain research
Researchers in China released this image of Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, the first monkey clones made by somatic cell nuclear transfer. The two genetically identical macaques were born recently at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai. PHOTO: QIANG SUN AND MU-MING POO / CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
By Robert Lee Hotz
Updated Jan. 24, 2018 12:11 p.m. ET
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In a world-wide first, Chinese scientists cloned two monkeys by transplanting donor cells into eggs, they said on Wednesday, a feat that could lead to genetically engineered primates for drug testing, gene editing and brain research.
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