By Elie Dolgin

Proposed changes to laws governing the use of nonhuman primates in research moved one step closer to adoption when the European Parliament voted in favor of the revisions last May. The changes would allow studies involving monkeys but prohibit testing on great apes, except for experiments intended to help conserve these species or for investigating new outbreaks of life-threatening diseases. (Click here to continue reading)

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