China Focus: Macaque cloning breakthrough offers hope against human illnesses

Muming Poo (L), a co-author on the study who directs the Institute of Neuroscience of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Sun Qiang (C), director of the non-human-primate research facility under CAS, and Liu Zhen, a postdoctoral fellow and the first author of the research paper published on Cell, attend a press conference in Beijing, capital of China, on Jan. 24, 2018. China on Thursday announced it successfully cloned world's first macaques from somatic cells by method that made Dolly. The initial research was published on the website of the scientific journal, Cell. (Xinhua/Zhang Yuwei)