Researchers in China have successfully cloned the first rhesus monkey, a species widely used in medical research because ... patients will benefit from these experiments, but any real-life ...

A South Carolina research facility's secretive experiments on monkeys, involving dangerous pathogens like the Zika virus, have come to light under recent scrutiny of the lab's practices after 43 ...

They are used in experiments to study infection and immunity. The first macaque monkeys were cloned in 2018, but rhesus monkeys are preferred for medical researchers, because of their genetic ...