Mass cloning for neu­ro re­search? Chi­nese sci­en­tists re­port birth of five gene-edit­ed mon­keys

Re­mem­ber when Chi­nese re­searchers an­nounced the birth of the first mon­keys cre­at­ed by so­mat­ic cell nu­clear trans­fer? Ex­act­ly a year lat­er, the same team is re­port­ing a sec­ond break­through — cloning five gene-edit­ed mon­keys in an ef­fort to over­come pre­vi­ous con­cerns about the costs and ef­fi­cien­cy in us­ing cloned mon­keys for med­ical re­search.

“It can be said that this re­search means the tech­nol­o­gy for cloning gene-edit­ed mon­keys has made the leap from the­o­ry to prac­tice,” sci­en­tists from the Chi­nese Acad­e­my of Sci­ences In­sti­tute of Neu­ro­science in Shang­hai write in a blog­post for Chi­nese me­dia Sina.

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