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MAY 24, 2010

testing a vaginal gel on monkeys. Thirty minutes after each gel application, the animals were exposed to SHIV, for a total of 14 "challenges." A fourth animal received a placebo gel in the same manner. Tags: animal research macaque. Now this is pretty gross. I understand it's for HIV prevention, but still.

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MAY 31, 2010

A Malaysian government official defended an Indian company's plans to build an animal testing medicine lab in his state, saying Monday that God created monkeys and rats for experiments to benefit humans. The activists say Malaysia has no regulations on animal research, which could lead to test subjects being abused.

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JULY 26, 2009

The growth in animal experiments reflects an expansion in biomedical research in Britain and is driven by advances in genetics and the development of new drugs that must be tested rigorously in monkeys before they are allowed to be given to humans.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2009

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. Tags: animal experimentation NASA. I believe that money to explore space can go to help an impoverished nation.

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APRIL 5, 2010

Disturbing picture of monkey being injected. Tags: animal research malaysia. Caution on this story.

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APRIL 18, 2010

The controversy over primate research is not going away any time soon, due to the paradox of primate research -- the more similarities between monkeys and humans that are discovered, the more researchers will argue those similarities make it valid to use monkeys in research on human diseases.

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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? There is more and more evidence that animal testing is NOT necessarily the best route to take.

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