Chimps Used In Medical Research

Use of Chimpanzees in Research | National Anti …

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Use of Chimpanzees in Research. Chimpanzees have been used for decades in biomedical research and testing. Because they share more than 98% of their DNA with humans, they have been considered an “ideal” research subject, one that can …

Chimpanzees in Laboratories | PETA

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Turning the Tide on Chimpanzee Use in U.S. Laboratories In 2011, a landmark report by the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of …

What happens to chimps used in medical research?

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/chimpanzee-research.htm

This law applied to chimpanzees used for biomedical research as well as behavioral research programs, such as those …

Four ways chimps have helped medical research - STAT

https://www.statnews.com/2015/11/19/chimps-medical-research-nih/

Chimpanzees in Research: Strategies for Their Ethical …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23115812/

Chimpanzees, because of their close evolutionary relationship to humans, are attractive models for physiological, biomedical, and behavioral studies. For example, they have …

U.S. Lab Chimps Stuck in Retirement Limbo - The …

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/science/lab-chimps-experiments.html

In 2010, the chimps at Alamogordo hadn’t been used in medical research for a decade. They were informally if not officially retired as experimental animals, although still on-site. Then the...

Chimpanzees Used in Research • MSPCA-Angell

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Chimpanzees Used in Research • MSPCA-Angell Chimpanzees are intelligent, resourceful animals and are humankind’s closest living relatives. In the wild, these great …

Has U.S. biomedical research on chimpanzees come to …

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Biomedical research on chimpanzees has been waning since 2013, when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would phase out most …

Monkeys used in medical research 'kept in neglectful …

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jun/18/monkeys-medical-research-chimpanzees

The NIH’s chimp standards were the culmination of a years-long, often-controversial process. By the time the NIH made its decision, just 1,000 chimps were used in medical research, and...

NIH Will No Longer Support Biomedical Research on …

https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/nih-will-no-longer-support-biomedical-research-chimpanzees

It has been two and half years since NIH announced its decision in June 2013 to significantly reduce the use of chimpanzees in agency-supported biomedical research and retain only a small population of chimpanzees …