A HIGH percentage of cloned monkey embryos that look healthy are really a
“gallery of horrors” deep within, says a researcher at Advanced Cell Technology,
the company that last month published the first paper on cloned human
embryos.
This could mean that there is something unique about primate eggs that will
make cloning monkeys or people far more difficult than cloning other animals. At
the very least, the experiments show that there’s a lot to learn before primates
can be cloned.
Tanja Dominko, who presented the results last week at a conference in
Washington DC, did the work before joining…
