{"id":75628,"date":"2018-01-29T03:43:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T11:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/chinese-scientists-just-cloned-two-monkeys-moving-one-step-closer-to-cloning-humans"},"modified":"2018-01-29T03:43:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T11:43:55","slug":"chinese-scientists-just-cloned-two-monkeys-moving-one-step-closer-to-cloning-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/chinese-scientists-just-cloned-two-monkeys-moving-one-step-closer-to-cloning-humans","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists just cloned two monkeys, moving one step closer to cloning humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-scientists-just-cloned-two-monkeys-moving-one-step-closer-to-cloning-humans.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Ben Hirschler<\/p>\n<p>LONDON (Reuters) \u2014 Chinese scientists have cloned monkeys using the same technique that produced Dolly the sheep two decades ago, breaking a technical barrier that could open the door to copying humans.<\/p>\n<p>Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, two identical long-tailed macaques, were born eight and six weeks ago, making them the first primates \u2014 the order of mammals that includes monkeys, apes and humans \u2014 to be cloned from a non-embryonic cell.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/r-chinese-scientists-break-key-barrier-by-cloning-monkeys-2018-1?utm_content=buffer54eeb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-bi\">http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/r-chinese-scientists-break-ke...=buffer-bi<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) \u2014 Chinese scientists have cloned monkeys using the same technique that produced Dolly the sheep two decades ago, breaking a technical barrier that could open the door to copying humans. Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, two identical long-tailed macaques, were born eight and six weeks ago, making them the first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}