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What does China’s monkey breakthrough mean for human cloning?

What does China’s monkey breakthrough mean for human cloning?

24 January 2018

The creation of monkey clones is a big breakthrough, but making a copy of an adult is still not possible and the ethics of cloning remain unchanged
Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, first cloned monkeys

Scientists have cloned monkeys and it could help treat cancer

24 January 2018

Meet the first of a possible army of cloned monkeys that could treat many diseases, but is this a step to human cloning, and will anyone but China accept them?

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