Scientists in China on Tuesday announced that they have cloned the first healthy rhesus monkey, a two-year-old named Retro, by tweaking the process that created Dolly the sheep. Primates have proved particularly difficult to clone, and the scientists overcame years of failure by replacing the cloned cells that would become the placenta with those from […]
Four UN experts have expressed alarm over the upcoming execution of Kenneth Smith in Alabama, warning that the state’s intention to kill the prisoner with an untested method using nitrogen gas could subject him to cruel and inhuman treatment amounting to torture. Related: ‘Astonishingly cruel’: Alabama seeks to test execution method on death row ‘guinea […]