Cloned rhesus monkey lives to adulthood for first time

A method that provides cloned embryos with a healthy placenta could pave the way for more research involving the primates.

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For the first time, a cloned rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) has lived into adulthood — surviving for more than two years so far.

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Nature 625, 641-642 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00136-2

Clarification 17 January 2024: An earlier version of this article referred to embryos produced by ‘conventional IVF’. This has been amended to clarify that the embryos were produced by intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).

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