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Primate research gets provisional thumbs-up in UK review
Primate research ought to continue in the UK because of its importance to human health and basic science, says a new report (download a PDF here) commissioned by the major funders of this research. The report also calls for “rigorous” experimental and ethical oversight of the work.
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