Does the birth of a cloned monkey mean we could now clone people?

A healthy rhesus monkey has been successfully cloned from fetal cells, but cloning an adult human would be much more difficult. The cloned monkey was born in China in July 2020 and has reached the age of 3 without any health issues. However, cloning primates remains challenging, and creating a clone of an adult human may not be technically possible, in addition to ethical and legal concerns. Cloning animals has had mixed results, with some species being more successful than others. The main obstacle is the addition of epigenetic markers to DNA as cells develop, which can cause problems when cloning adult cells. While this advancement in primate cloning is significant, the researchers do not intend to pursue human cloning due to ethical reasons. The purpose of cloning primates is to advance research in fields such as cognitive and biomedicine. [Extracted from the article]