Critter News

MARCH 6, 2009

Puerto Rico is using it as a dumping ground for "nuisance" monkeys. Puerto Rico is eager to rid itself of the estimated 2,000 patas and rhesus monkeys that have taken a toll on wildlife and agriculture in the Lajas Valley since escaping from nearby research centers 30 years ago. "We Tags: zoos baghdad primates.

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Critter News

JUNE 3, 2009

Viral DNA was used to introduce a gene for a green fluorescent protein into monkeys, creating a new line of "glow-in-the-dark" transgenic primates for drug research work. The ethical questions are obvious. Tags: genetics animal experimentation animal research monkeys. Oh, by the way, drug researchers love this.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Not sure anything will come of this, but Dane County is turning its attention to the primate research going on at University of Madison-Wisconsin. Twenty county board supervisors have sent a letter to UW-Madison's Chancellor Biddy Martin, asking her to get directly involved in the ethics of monkey experimentation.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Tags: university research animal experimentation animal research primates. At a tax payer cost of $472,370? To "gain insights into some of the neurological disorders affecting vocalization?" No wonder the research community wraps a "saves lives" cloak around its work whether falsified journal articles or Larson's "speech" studies.

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