medical-research
NIH Offers Most of Its Medical-Experiment Chimps Early Retirement
Tom Scocca · 06/26/13 03:18PMThe National Institutes of Health announced today that most of America's federal stockpile of chimpanzees will be permanently retired from biomedical research. Of the 360 chimps currently available for testing, 310 are to be irrevocably assigned to the Federal Sanctuary System. The remaining 50 will still be eligible to be recalled for research, if necessary.