A team of Chinese researchers successfully cloned a Rhesus monkey for the first time, a species whose biology closely resembles that of humans and is widely used in medical research. According to the BBC, the specimen survived healthily for...
In a demonstration of the possibilities offered by cloning for the conservation of an endangered animal, scientists from the USA have managed to have kits of black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) born from a cloned mother.
This ferret is seriously threatened...