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National Institutes of Health halts funding for medical research using chimps
The National Institutes of Health, America’s foremost medical research agency, said Wednesday it no longer would fund studies involving chimpanzees, as it prepares to revise its policies on using the primates. The NIH said it also plans to review all ongoing studies using chimpanzees, although such projects already are rare.…
Sequestration will have ‘catastrophic consequences’ on medical research
The automatic budget cuts set to go into effect at the end of the year will have a devastating effect on medical research in the United States, according to the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). If sequestration goes into effect, as it is scheduled to do in…
New bill would block public access to publicly-funded studies
Right now, if you want to read the published results of the biomedical research that your own tax dollars paid for, all you have to do is visit the digital archive of the National Institutes of Health. There you’ll find thousands of articles on the latest discoveries in medicine and…
New limits on chimpanzee research in the U.S.
The leading US medical research agency has said it would review all government-funded experiments on chimpanzees after an independent panel of experts urged strict limits on their use in biomedical research. The head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Francis Collins, said he agreed with the findings of the…
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