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US chimpanzee research to be curtailed
16.12.11 - US chimpanzee research to be curtailed. Most biomedical research on chimpanzees deemed 'unnecessary'. In a watershed moment for chimpanzee research, the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) yesterday released a report declaring that “most current use of chimpanzees for biomedical research is unnecessary” and recommending the sharp curtailing of government-funded research on humankind’s closest genetic relative. Within an hour, Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which funds research on chimpanzees, announced that he accepted the recommendations and would move to implement them as swiftly as possible.
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