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"The barrier of cloning primate species is now overcome," said Muming Poo from the Chinese Academy of Sciences at Shanghai.
Since the Dolly's birth in 1996, scientists have been successfully cloning nearly two dozen kinds of mammals, including dogs, cats, pigs, cows and polo ponies, and have also created human embryos with this method. But until now, they have been unable to make babies this way in primates, the category that includes monkeys, apes and people.
Poo and fellows announced their success with macaques in a paper released Wednesday by the journal Cell. The female baby monkeys, about 7 and 8 weeks old, are named Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua.
Now they are saying that humans are next to be part of this experiment. Yet, international critics and science pundits still criticize it as Dr. Marcy Darnovsky, executive director of the Center for Genetics and Society in Berkeley, California, titled it unethical to subject saying that the new child will have both psychological and emotional risks of living under the shadow of its genetic predecessor." Human cloning will also require hundreds of women to donate eggs and to serve as surrogates, she said. which may turn fatal and cause infertility in general overall.
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