Macaque cloning breakthrough offers hope against human illnesses

Liu Zhen, a postdoctoral fellow and the first author of the research paper published on Cell, works in a lab of the non-human-primate research facility under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on Jan. 22, 2018. China on Thursday announced it successfully cloned world's first macaques from somatic cells by the method that made Dolly. [Photo/Xinhua]