Description
Macaques in general are the monkeys most widely used in biomedical research. In the 1950s crab-eating macaques were used extensively in studies that led to the development of the polio vaccine. In addition, crab-eating macaques and rhesus monkeys, in particular, have played important roles in cloning. Scientists first cloned a rhesus monkey through a process called embryonic cell nuclear transfer in 2001, and in 2018 the crab-eating macaque became the first primate cloned using the process of somatic cell nuclear transfer.
