operation. well a barrier has been broken the genie is out of the bottle these are some of the headlines from news of a scientific breakthrough in cloning chinese researchers say that they have successfully cloned monkeys now the baby monkeys that you see here don't just look alike they are identical their clone using the same method which produced dolly the sheep two decades ago but there is a very important difference monkeys are primates just like us humans cloning a human technically is now possible me chills sean and they might just look like two cute baby mechanics but they also represent a breakthrough that has excited scientists around the world the monkeys are close the very first successful clones of a prime at using the method to produce dolly research is that the chinese academy of sciences presented them to the public this week the purpose of doing call me