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Chinese Scientists Clone Monkeys Using Method That Created Dolly The Sheep

Chinese researchers have finally figured out how to clone a primate, using the same technique Scottish researchers devised（设计；发明）to clone the first mammal, Dolly the sheep, in the mid-1990s.

Scientists in Shanghai say they’ve produced two cloned macaque monkeys（猕猴，短尾猴） by taking the DNA from the nuclei of fetal monkey cells and putting the genes into monkey eggs that had their own DNA removed. The scientists then stimulated the eggs to develop into embryos（胚胎）, which were placed into the wombs of female surrogate（代孕的） monkeys to develop into baby monkeys. It’s the first time the technology, called somatic cell nuclear transfer（体细胞核移植）, has been used to clone any close relative of humans.

Procedure for Monkey SCNT Using Fetal Monkey Fibroblasts

(A) Fetal monkey fibroblasts in primary culture.

The researchers hope to use the advance to create genetically identical monkeys for medical research. They describe their work in the journal Cell.

“We’re excited — extremely excited,” Mu-ming Poo of the Chinese Academy of Sciences said. “This is really, I think, a breakthrough（重大突破） for biomedicine.”

He sees a need to have “genetically identical monkeys for studying many human diseases, especially brain diseases” such as Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s （亨廷顿舞蹈症）and Parkinson’s.

Other scientists agree the development could prove very useful.

“I think it’s a very exciting landmark（里程碑）. It’s a major advance,” says Dieter Egli, a reproductive biologist（生殖生物学家） at Columbia University. “It should be possible to make models of human disease in those monkeys and study those and then attempt to cure it.”

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But the step also raises concern that someone might try to use the same technique to clone humans, given the biological similarities between monkeys and humans.

“People may wonder: Are human beings next?” says Insoo Hyun, a bioethicist （生物伦理学家）at Case Western Reserve University. “People have always been worried about the possibility of human cloning. And this is just yet another step in that direction.”

The Chinese scientists acknowledge that any new technology can be abused（滥用）. But they stress they have no interest in ever trying to clone a person. “Technically speaking one can clone human,” Poo says. “But we’re not going to do it. There’s absolutely no plan to do anything on humans.”

Ever since Scottish researchers cloned Dolly the sheep, scientists have attempted to use the same technique to clone other mammals. They’ve succeeded with many species, including mice, dogs, cows, horses and rabbits.

Scientists cloned rhesus monkeys（恒河猴） using a different method known as embryo splitting. But that technique isn’t considered useful for producing large numbers of genetically modified clones for medical research.