NIH Told to Retire Most Research Chimps

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - 13:32 in Biology & Nature

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) should dismantle a decades-old colony of 360 chimpanzees, retiring all but roughly 50 of the animals to a national sanctuary, the biomedical agency was told on 22 January in a long-awaited report. [More]

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