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Report recommends stringent limits on use of chimpanzees in biomedical and behavioral research
December 15, 2011 by NewsBot
Given that chimpanzees are so closely related to humans and share similar behavioral traits, the U.S. National Institutes of Health should allow their use as subjects in biomedical research only under stringent conditions, including the absence of any other suitable model and inability to ethically perform the research on people, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine.