“Retro is growing and getting stronger every ... This new strategy has significantly improved the efficiency of monkey cloning” German bioengineer Angelika Schnieke, one of the people involved ...

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 ...

For instance, one earlier experiment only saw one monkey out of 35 ... making cells of the cloned embryo with ones from a normal one. This worked a treat, and Retro was born a healthy two-year ...