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Test-tube monkey born

CHINESE scientists have bred the country’s first testtube monkeys, in the first step toward breeding genetically engineered monkeys for scientific research. Dr Sun Qiang of the Shanghai-based East China Normal University... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Thu, Sep 11 2008

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