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Retro
Retro is a rhesus macaque monkey born in July 2020 who was announced by Chinese researchers in early 2024 as the first healthy cloned rhesus macaque to survive to adulthood. Retro was created using somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), the same technique used to clone Dolly the sheep. The research team, led by scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, modified the technique by cul...
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Britches
Britches was a stump-tailed macaque monkey used in sensory deprivation experiments at the University of California, Riverside. In April 1985, the Animal Liberation Front removed Britches and approximately 700 other animals from the facility. At the time of the raid, Britches had his eyelids surgically sutured shut and wore a helmet device as part of a study on visual deprivation and development in...
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