A first for monkey models

The inability to produce transgenic nonhuman primates that pass transgenes to their progeny has been a major obstacle to studying inherited diseases and conditions determined by disease susceptibility genes. Japanese researchers have developed a potential solution: marmosets that pass on a transgene to their progeny.¹

If the approach can be refined, biotech service providers may have to play catch-up, as there are only limited marmoset-related genomic data available and a dearth of marmoset-specific reagents such as antibodies, microarrays, cytokines and cDNA clones...