Cloning by Eagle With Da Shoes

Methods

bennythegreat3000 — 2024-01-22 15:37:41 UTC

Scientists used somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) using fetal fibroblasts to make two live monkeys

bennythegreat3000 — 2024-01-22 15:40:11 UTC

The end results were that they put 21 ova into birthing monkeys.

Six monkeys got pregnant, but only two babies successfully survived (Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua).

bennythegreat3000 — 2024-01-22 15:49:11 UTC

The research helped future studies by making pathways on how to clone primates that are closer to humans like apes. Overall there have been 3 successful attempts at cloning primates.

bennythegreat3000 — 2024-01-22 16:04:35 UTC

This research shows that it is possible that humans can clone humans, but is it ethical or not? Many countries have banned human cloning because they say that it is unethical because the human experiment could suffer greatly.

bennythegreat3000 — 2024-01-22 16:19:06 UTC

The end result can justify the experiment because the monkeys can serve a purpose as models for primate biology, biomedical research, and helping research human diseases. The two monkeys are now 6 years old living happy lives, they're also growing less dependent on artificial food sources and are having more natural food sources, which shows signs of them having the chance to live full fledged lives in the wild!

bennythegreat3000 — 2024-01-22 16:20:33 UTC

As you can see, Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua look exactly identical down to the color of their hair and facial features.

How were they created?

bennythegreat3000 — 2024-01-22 21:31:54 UTC

So, what was the scientific process to clone the monkeys? Scientists used similar techniques that were used to create Dolly the Sheep, the first ever cloned animal. Scientists extracted the nuclei from an aborted macaque fetal cell (donor cell). Then they removed the old nuclei from another monkey's ova and put in the new nuclei. After that, they inserted the new egg cells into birthing monkeys.

How it works

bennythegreat3000 — 2024-01-22 21:39:36 UTC

Timeline

bennythegreat3000 — 2024-01-22 21:46:48 UTC

Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua were the 79th attempt of the Chinese Academy of Science trying to clone a monkey. In 2017, Zhong Zhong was born in November and Hua Hua was born December. There were two other monkeys that were born but they failed to survive. Qiang Sun of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neuroscience said, "We tried several different methods, but only one worked. There was much failure before we found a way to successfully clone a monkey."

bennythegreat3000 — 2024-01-23 02:27:28 UTC