After numerous attempts over the years, a healthy rhesus monkey has finally been created by cloning. The clone was born in China on 16 July 2020, but its existence has only now been revealed.

However, previous efforts to clone rhesus monkeys with the same method ... “which may play a critical role in the development of monkey SCNT embryos”, the paper said. To improve the cloning ...

There was much failure before we found a way to successfully clone a monkey." The scientists say they followed strict international guidelines for animal research, set by the US National ...

Previous attempts to clone a rhesus have either not led to births ... they have essentially done the same thing but with a rhesus monkey. They say that the animal has remained healthy for more ...

But primates have proven tricky. For instance, one earlier experiment only saw one monkey out of 35 foetuses make it, and even then, it only lasted a day. Even the current "successful" experiment ...