AR-News: (US) Pitt gets $6.4 million to clone monkeys

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[from Pittsburgh Post Gazette]

Cloning researchers in Pittsburgh have been awarded a federal grant
to continue to look for ways to produce genetic copies of monkeys and
other nonhuman primates.

The National Institutes of Health awarded a $6.4 million, five-year
grant to the Pittsburgh Development Center, which is part of the
Magee-Womens Research Institute and directed by cloning expert Gerald
Schatten.
...
Creating genetically identical monkeys -- clones -- would provide an
important new tool for medical research, Schatten said. Before new
treatments can be tested in people, they must first be rigorously
checked in animal models. Lab mice have been bred so that each strain
of animals has certain genes in exactly the same place on their
chromosomes.

full story:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03242/216640.stm

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