If Dolly the sheep were still alive, she’d have a friend in Retro, a 2-year-old rhesus monkey who was successfully cloned in ...

Rhesus monkeys are used in research to study human infections and immune response, due to their similar genetic make-up. Cloning could allow researchers to produce “a large number of genetically ...

Could ReTro be the first of a new generation of cloned monkeys used by medical researchers? Chinese researchers have cloned the first rhesus monkey, a species which is widely used in medical ...

China sure fits that bill! For example, scientists there brought cloned monkeys to birth recently, meaning human reproductive cloning could be on the horizon. Not to worry: The scientists are alarmed!

Scientists have successfully cloned five genetically-altered baby monkeys for very first time. Using the same technique that produced Dolly the sheep, Chinese scientists are hailing the ...

Pet cloning has becoming big business in the US, with Barbra Streisand and Paris Hilton among its early adopters. Yet cloning ...

Some experts reckon the low success rate means loads of poor monkeys will suffer before a healthy one pops out. And then there's the whole human cloning thing, which, although the scientists and ...

But some scientists are sceptical about his assertions. He has claimed to have created the first cloned monkeys - but never produced any evidence.

Two cloned macaque monkeys were born in late 2017 at the Institute of Neuroscience (ION) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Shanghai. Created through somatic cell nuclear transfer ...