The European Commission proposed a ban on laboratory use of wild-caught apes and monkeys this past November—just short of asking that primate experiments be phased out altogether. “It is absolutely ...

The demonstration corresponds with bi-weekly protests this month urging students to call animal researchers at the University. According to the Primate Freedom Project, there are 100 to 200 non-human ...

Animal experiments are widely used to develop ... but there is no proposal to phase out the use of other non-human primates in the immediate foreseeable future.

One potentially appealing experimental strategy is to investigate the functional effects of human-lineage specific (HLS) sequences in transgenic non-human primates (NHPs). Ideally, the species ...

Keywords: animal welfare, handling, non-human primates, psychological well-being, restraint, social support, stress, training, unfamiliar environment One of the major drawbacks to the use of non-human ...

UK law both requires and regulates experiments on animals. Any new drug must be tested on at least two different species of live mammal, one of which must be a large non-rodent. The way scientists ...

Goodman also blamed "institutional inertia" and "circular reasoning" – that agencies had always experimented on animals – for not innovating outside animals, while Locke said feds were "passive and ...