Quote:Chinese researchers have cloned the first rhesus monkey, a species which is widely used in medical research because its physiology is similar to humans.

They say they could speed up drug testing, as genetically identical animals give like-for-like results, providing greater certainty in trials.
Previous attempts to clone a rhesus have either not led to births or the offspring have died a few hours later.
One animal welfare group has said it is "deeply concerned" by the development.
In mammals, sexual reproduction leads to offspring made up of a mixture of genes from their father and mother. In cloning, techniques are used to create a genetically identical copy of a single animal.
The most famous cloned animal, Dolly the sheep, was created in 1996. Scientists reprogrammed a cell from another sheep to turn them into embryos which are building block cells that can grow into any part of an organism. These embryos were then implanted into Dolly's surrogate mother.
Writing in the journal Nature communications, the researchers say they have essentially done the same thing but with a rhesus monkey. They say that the animal has remained healthy for more than two years, indicating the cloning process was successful.
Dr Falong Lu of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences told BBC News that ''everyone was beaming with happiness'' at the successful outcome.
But a spokesperson for the UK's Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) said that the organisation believed that the animal suffering caused outweighed any immediate benefit to human patients.

Quote:The cost of equine cloning varies between €200,000[sup][29][/sup] and €300,000,[sup][30][/sup] depending on the source. In 2010, clones intended for sporting competitions represented just 22% of operations.[sup][31][/sup] Cloning is therefore mainly carried out in Europe for the purpose of breeding high-performance horses.

(01-16-2024, 05:32 PM)StoutBroux Wrote: A few years ago, there was a man who cloned his dog.  I had written about it on another site.

Here's a youtube link and that was 6 years ago.  I think it's fairly easy at this point but cost prohibitive.  It's also not like people think. It's not identical at least from what I've seen.  The cloned dogs have little resemblance to their genetic donors.  But it's interesting and I believe they can and have cloned humans.  They just don't want us to know about it.

[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF2HPrdNP1A]

(01-17-2024, 02:34 PM)Kenzo Wrote: This is not good is my vibe .

Like some rich evil dictator orders make copy`s of himselves....just because he can. Then there are 5 or 10 them .

Yikes!

(01-17-2024, 07:48 PM)Halfswede Wrote: And who owns them?  Do they have rights?  Just keep some on hand for skipping work or free organs?
That said, the movie Multiplicity with Michael Keaton is absolutely hilarious.