PHOTO OF THE DAY #11 Geneticists from China for the first time cloned a monkey using the "Dolly sheep" technique.
Chinese scientists for the first time received healthy baby monkeys, "conceived" by the transfer of the nucleus from the somatic cell to the nucleus devoid of its own nucleus. Born young Javanese macaques are identical genetic copies, that is, clones of the donor monkey cells of connective tissue, from which the cloning nuclei were taken. The first animal cloned by transferring the nucleus from the somatic cell was the famous Dolly lamb, which was born in 1996. So far, scientists have been unable to clone primates in this way.
Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua.
"The creation of a technique for cloning monkeys gives us a lot of new opportunities, and now we can grow primates with an absolutely identical set of genes, with the exception of one DNA site whose structure we have changed.This will help not only to reveal the essence of many genetic diseases, but also to find new methods of combating cancer and immune disorders, "Qiang Sun, director of the Center for Primate Research at the CAC Institute of Neurophysiology in Shanghai, China, said.
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