Pictures of the bundled-up rhesus macaque were spread around the world by social media.

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Yasmin Nakhuda said her rhesus macaque is always by her side, even when she sleeps and showers.

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Mitalipov's breakthrough was the result of merging skin cells of a 9-year-old rhesus macaque male with unfertilized monkey eggs that had the DNA removed.

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The antiviral gene comes from a rhesus macaque, and produces a protein called a restriction factor that can resist Aids-causing viruses affecting other animals.

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This new type of neuron was discovered in a Rhesus macaque.

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The researchers will look to see if their immune systems respond to the booster shots in the same way that those of the rhesus macaque monkeys did.

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