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Along with Schrödinger’s Cat, the Infinite Monkeys Theorem is one of the most famous thought experiments. A new study, with tongue firmly in cheek, has calculated that you might be waiting seven googol years for your Shakespeare.

While ethical questions abound, scientists have tweaked traditional SCNT cloning of mammals to produce the very first healthy rhesus monkey that has lived to adulthood. It’s the first successful cloning of a species notoriously hard to 'copy and paste.'

In a breakthrough new study, scientists have created human-monkey chimera embryos for the first time. They make for more accurate models of human biology and disease - but of course they also raise some complicated ethical concerns.

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