Primate cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer
Clonación de primates por transferencia nuclear (Zhong Zhong y Hua Hua)
- Date
- 2018 · confidence high
- Place
- Institute of Neuroscience (CAS), Shanghai, China
- Credited to
- Sun Qiang, Liu Zhen and Poo Mu-ming
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
The first primates cloned from somatic cells, two crab-eating macaques. They overcame deficient reprogramming using epigenetic modulators.
What it led to
- genetically identical primate models for research
- ethical debate over primate cloning
Built on
- Nuclear transfer between fish (Tong Dizhou)1963
- Dolly the sheep (somatic cell nuclear transfer)1996
- Dolly the sheep (somatic cell nuclear transfer)