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Biologists come close to cloning primates

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Cloned monkey embryos transferred into mothers.

US biologists have created cloned monkey embryos, and successfully transferred them into monkey mothers. Although none of the resulting pregnancies lasted more than a month, this is by far the closest scientists have come to cloning a primate.

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Pearson, H. Biologists come close to cloning primates. Nature (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/news041018-12

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