Primate’s Progress: Macaque genome is usefully different

A group of 35 labs this week unveiled a draft of the genome for the rhesus macaque, the most widely used laboratory primate and a cousin to people.

THIRD COUSIN. Like people and chimps, the rhesus macaque has now had almost all of its genome sequenced. J. Moglia/Science

“The big question here is, ‘What makes us human?'” says Richard A.