China Focus: Macaque cloning breakthrough offers hope against human illnesses

Liu Zhen (L), a postdoctoral fellow and the first author of the research paper published on Cell, Muming Poo (C), 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, and Sun Qiang, director of the non-human-primate research facility under CAS, pose for photos on Jan. 21, 2018. China on Thursday announced it successfully cloned world's first macaques from somatic cells by method that made Dolly. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)