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Wednesday, November 18, 2015

NIH says it will retire all remaining research chimpanzees

The National Institutes of Health will reduce its staff by 50 — chimpanzees.The director of the nation’s biomedical research facility announced late Wednesday that the primates, the closest living relatives to humans, would no longer be needed to test experimental vaccines, drugs or other treatments....



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