Chinese Scientists Successfully Clone Five Gene-Edited Monkeys
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Chinese scientists cloned five monkeys from a gene-edited macaque with circadian-related disorders, another first for the country in the controversial field.
The cloned monkeys were born in Shanghai at the Institute of Neuroscience of Chinese Academy of Sciences, according to two articles published in National Science Review on Thursday. Researchers knocked out BMAL1 -- a critical transcription factor for activating circadian rhythms -- through gene editing at the embryo stage, then cloned a monkey with the mutation.