China Focus: Macaque cloning breakthrough offers hope against human illnesses

Source: Xinhua| 2018-01-25 01:11:58|Editor: Chengcheng

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Sun Qiang, director of the non-human-primate research facility under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), answers questions after a press conference in Beijing, capital of China, on Jan. 24, 2018. China on Thursday announced it successfully cloned world's first macaques from somatic cells by method that made Dolly. The initial research was published on the website of the scientific journal, Cell. (Xinhua/Zhang Yuwei)