In a major breakthrough Oregon researcher’s reported that they had created the world’s first fully formed, cloned monkey embryos and harvested batches of stem cells from them. The monkey embryos were each created from a single skin cell of a monkey. It also effectively settles a long-standing scientific debate about whether primates, which includes monkeys and humans, are biologically capable of being cloned; yes primates are capable of being cloned.

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