An international consortium of researchers has published the genome sequence of the rhesus macaque monkey and aligned it with the chimpanzee and human genomes. The analysis reveals that the three ...

Retro, a cloned rhesus monkey, is the first such primate to reach adulthood after being born on July 16, 2020 by researches at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Primary Menu Sections.

Researchers successfully clone 2 monkeys 01:45. Scientists in China on Tuesday announced that they have cloned the first healthy rhesus monkey, a two-year-old named Retro, by tweaking the process ...

Scientists have spent decades studying rhesus macaques on the remote Monkey Island. They're learning how the stress of environmental crises, like hurricanes, impact the monkeys.

For the first time, a cloned rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta) has lived into adulthood — surviving for more than two years so far.The feat, described today in Nature Communications, marks the ...

In the first study of its kind in an animal species that has not passed a critical test of self-recognition, a cognitive psychologist has demonstrated that rhesus monkeys appear to have a sense of ...

Meet Retro, a cloned rhesus monkey born on July 16, 2020. He is now more than 3 years old and is “doing well and growing strong,” according to Falong Lu, one of the authors of a study ...

Scientists have created a healthy rhesus monkey clone by providing the cloned embryo with a healthy placenta, paving the way for more efficient cloning of primates and other mammals.

In the first study of its kind in an animal species that has not passed a critical test of self-recognition, cognitive psychologist Justin J. Couchman of the University at Buffalo has demonstrated ...

Rhesus macaque monkeys infected in utero with Zika virus develop similar brain pathology to human infants, according to a report by researchers at the California National Primate Research Center and ...