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Cloned Monkeys
January 27 , 2018
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- Chinese scientists for first time have successfully cloned two identical long-tailed macaques (monkeys), named Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua.
- Scientists used the same technique for cloning that produced Dolly sheep which is the first cloned organism of the world.
- This development makes them world’s first primates to be cloned from non-embryonic cell.
- It is significant because monkeys have in the past proved resistant to the cloning technique.
- They were cloned using process called somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), which involves transferring the nucleus of cell, which includes its DNA, into egg whose nucleus is removed.
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