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AnonTechie [soylentnews.org] writes:

Genome Editing — The ability to create primates with intentional mutations could provide powerful new ways to study complex and genetically baffling brain disorders.

Last November, the female monkey twins, Mingming and Lingling, were born here on the sprawling research campus of Kunming Biomedical International and its affiliated Yunnan Key Laboratory of Primate Biomedical Research. The macaques had been conceived via in vitro fertilization. Then scientists used a new method of DNA engineering known as CRISPR to modify the fertilized eggs by editing three different genes, and they were implanted into a surrogate macaque mother. The twins' healthy birth marked the first time that CRISPR has been used to make targeted genetic modifications in primates-potentially heralding a new era of biomedicine in which complex diseases can be modeled and studied in monkeys.

http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/5265 11/genome-editing/ [technologyreview.com]

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