Scientists succeed in creating transgenic primate

A team of scientists headed by Erika Sasaki, Laboratory Head of the Central Institute of Experimental Animals, and Professor Hideyuki Okano of the Keio University School of Medicine has succeeded in creating transgenic primates. The expression of an introduced gene was discovered not only in a first generation of common marmosets after introduction, but also in a second. This is the first case ever established in the world that an introduced gene was successfully inherited to next generation in primates...

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