marmoset

This new discovery is a breakthrough in biotechnology world.  In many controversy about biotechnology, especially transgenic, the Japanese scientists recently announced their successful on creating a primate transgenic.   Not only that, for the first time in the world, expression of the inserted genes could survive and founded in the second generation of primate resulted from genetic engineering.

Genetics Engineering

The genetics engineering is a series of technique to isolate, modify, reproduce and recommended the genes from different organism.  Marmoset is a primate which is resulted from the first transgenic.  The marmoset babies are resulted of transgenic named Hisui, Wakaba, Kei, kou and Banko.

About Marmoset

Marmosets are the 25 New World monkey species of the genera Callithrix, Cebuella, Callibella, and Mico. All four genera are part of the biological family Callitrichidae. The term marmoset is also used in reference to the Goeldi’s Monkey, Callimico goeldii, which is closely related.

Most marmosets are about 20 centimetres (7.9 in) long. Relative to other monkeys, they show some apparently primitive features: they have claws rather than nails, and tactile hairs on their wrists. They lack wisdom teeth, and their brain layout seems to be relatively primitive. Their body temperature is unusually variable, changing by up to 4 °C (7 °F) in a day.  (wikipedia).

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