The center’s host university had been negotiating with the federal government about converting the center into an animal sanctuary. A new plan, approved today, preserves some of the center’s nonhuman primate studies.
Posted on behalf of Meera Swami A recent Nature poll revealed that nearly one in four biologists have been negatively affected by animal-rights activists. Yet that hasn’t led to a reduction in the number of animals used in biomedical research, at least in Britain. According to statistics released today from the UK Home Office, last year saw a record number of animal experiments in the country, wi…
Crossposted from Nature’s news blog on behalf of Meredith Wadman. An Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee that will recommend whether the US government should continue to support chimpanzee research opened its inaugural meeting yesterday in Washington, D.C. and began wrestling with the thorny questions it has been set. The Committee on the Use of Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research…
