Animal rights groups face off with scientists over fate of chimps
Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 20:07
in Biology & Nature
Almost 200 have had a long break from testing that dates to NASA's early days, but that could end.Ever since the first of their number arrived in New Mexico half a century ago as test subjects in the fledgling U.S. space program, nearly 200 government-owned chimpanzees were routinely injected with viruses and used to test everything from experimental vaccines to insecticides.