Medical Monkeys Tagged Animal 
Critter News
APRIL 6, 2009
These are not subject monkeys, but they are part of the breeding colony. The last of nine monkeys that escaped from the Oregon National Primate Research Center in Hillsboro was found at 2 p.m. Nine Japanese macaque monkeys got loose Friday after their keeper left the cage unlocked and they figured out how to open the door.
Critter News
MARCH 10, 2009
The article discusses how scientists are infecting monkeys with a surrogate HIV virus that does not even lead to AIDS, begging the question of why infect them in first place if there's no real simulation of what happens in humans? Here's my response on medical research in general. It’s just a question of WILL.
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Critter News
NOVEMBER 7, 2009
The research project, led by Jack Bergman of McLean Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate in Belmont, Mass., In Bergman's study, according to Discovery News, 18 to 28 squirrel monkeys would be subjected to radiation and periodically tested to gauge how exposure affects performance in a variety of learned tasks.
Critter News
JULY 26, 2009
The increase marks the greatest leap in animal use in medical research since 1986, when the government introduced new auditing procedures. Substantial numbers of animals are used to test the safety of new drugs before they are allowed to be used in human trials.
Critter News
AUGUST 25, 2009
Here's a post on the Red, Green and Blue blog about the unspeakable trade in macaque monkeys as research subjects. Tags: animal experimentation animal research primates medical research. If they think about what's going on and their role in it, then they might actually have to care.
Critter News
NOVEMBER 23, 2010
A Menlo Park research facility Monday refused to allow a humane society representative to check up on a monkey that bit a female lab worker the day before. received a very minor injury to the finger, was treated onsite by emergency response personnel and then at a local medical facility," SRI said in a statement released Monday.
Critter News
JULY 19, 2009
From Alternet.org.all CAPS are my emphasis Under the law, an animal enterprise includes any business that deals in animal research or uses or sells animal products. This could be read as anything from a lab conducting medical research on monkeys to a gas station that sells beef jerky.
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