Cloning primates is complicated. In most attempts, embryos and newborns die. But researchers in China have said they’ve cloned a rhesus monkey that’s doing well.
Researchers in China are forging ahead with their controversial attempts to clone primates, and now, a team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) claims one of their cloned monkeys has lived more than two years.
Scientists have cloned the first rhesus monkey, a breakthrough that could help advance medical research but has drawn criticism from an animal welfare group.
Experts in Beijing used somatic cells from a rhesus monkey to create the genetically identical copy (pictured), which is healthy and more than two years old.
Scientists have cloned the first rhesus monkey, a breakthrough that could help advance medical research but has drawn criticism from an animal welfare group.