Critter News
AUGUST 26, 2010
"Since 2001, chimpanzees have been housed at APF, where they cannot be used for research. However, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to move the chimpanzees—many of them at least 30 years old—to the Southwest National Primate Research Facility in San Antonio, Texas, where they can be used in painful, invasive experiments.".
Critter News
OCTOBER 6, 2010
Stop Animal Exploitation Now! SAEN) is calling for an investigation of Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, TX. Tags: animal research primates Texas. Documents show discrepancies in reporting to two different regulatory agencies, suggesting fraud within the lab, SAEN claims.
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Critter News
AUGUST 19, 2010
Bill Richardson is asking to tour a former medical research lab in southern New Mexico that houses more than 200 chimpanzees. The animals can be used again for medical experiments if transferred to the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, Texas. From the AP.
Critter News
OCTOBER 6, 2009
This place is celebrating its 10th year with ground-breaking research into what makes us all fat. After more than 50 years of studying the ways a fatty diet contributes to heart disease in San Antonio baboons, it might seem there wouldn't be much left to learn. Tags: primates medical research. Fast food is bad for you?
Critter News
DECEMBER 31, 2010
Bill Richardson on Thursday the chimps will not be transferred to a San Antonio, Texas, facility until the National Academy of Sciences reviews policies on using chimpanzees in biomedical research. The NIH proposed sending them to Texas to be used in research aimed at finding a hepatitis C vaccine.
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