A cloned rhesus monkey has survived for more than two years and has led to "valuable insights" into the scientific process, according to experts. Scientists in China used a modified version of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Turns out, cloned embryos often have placentas much ... Scientists are hoping this new wrinkle will let them create identical rhesus monkeys for medical research. These monkeys are like distant ...

Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua are the first non-human primates cloned through this technique. In 1999, a rhesus monkey embryo was split in two in order to create two identical twins. One of the baby ...

Chinese scientists successfully clone a rhesus MONKEY for the first time - but experts say using the same technique to replicate humans is 'unjustifiable' 'If we disappeared, a lot of things would ...

Authorities in Yemassee, South Carolina, have warned its roughly 1,100 residents to “keep doors and windows secured” after the escape of 43 rhesus macaque monkeys from a nearby biomedical ...

Update on the Alpha Genesis monkey escape; a deep dive into the controversial practice of using animals in scientific ...