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News Archives - January 2011 through April 30, 2012
Research Animals in the News Doctors Protest Baystate Medical Center's Lethal Use of Pigs Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine - April 30, 2012 Congressional Hearing Considers Ending Chimpanzee Experiments Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine - April 27, 2012 Hand Paralysis Reversed in Research Monkeys New Scientist - April 24, 2012 Harvard Research Primate Reforms Harvard Magazine - April 23, 2012 Genome Sequence Complete of Kanzi, Bonobo Who Understands England and Plays Music Wayne State University School of Medicine - April 23, 2012 PCRM Continues to Urge NIH to End Chimpanzee Experiments Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine - April 17, 2012 Care for Chimpanzees Retired from Research Use and Deciding Endangered Classification Key to Policy Change Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News - April 12, 2012 Jury Acquits Animal Broker of Cruelty to Primates Fresnobee.com - April 7, 2012 PCRM Urges Harvard to End Primate Laboratory Research Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine - April 6, 2012 Monkeys and Medication: The Key to MS Cure? WFTV Florida - April 2, 2012 Top Israeli Scientist Criticizes El Al's Refusal to Export Research Animals Haaretz - April 2, 2012 PCRM Goes to Capitol Hill to Improve Combat Training without Animal Models - videos Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine - March 30, 2012 US Research Monkey Importer Facing Cruelty Charges ABC News - March 29, 2012 Victory for Ferrets at the University of Washington Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine - March 25, 2012 NIH Will Soon No Longer Allow Researchers Who Receive Federal Funds to Acquire Cats and Dogs From Shelters Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine - March 24, 2012 Monkey Restrained and Left Alone Dies in New Jersey Testing Laboratory NJ.com - March 24, 2012 University of British Columbia Cleared in Deaths of Research Monkeys Winnipeg Sun - March 23, 2012 Harvard Shows Changes at Primate Lab Boston Globe - March 20, 2012 NIH Expects to Have New Policies for Research Using Chimpanzees Next Year Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News - March 20, 2012 University of Toronto Monkey Testing to Continue The Star - March 18, 2012 L'Oreal Backs US Non-Animal Chemical Testing France24 - March 15, 2012 Chimpanzees Need Your Support Now Psychology Today - March 12, 2012 Part 2: University of Toronto Ends Primate Research - Outsourcing Controversy Speaking of Research - March 7, 2012 U.S. Air Force Criticized for Plans to Wound Live Pigs in Medics Training Daily Mail - March 5, 2012 Harvard Halts Research in Southborough After Fourth Monkey Dies MetroWest Daily News - March 3, 2012 Harvard Vows Changes After Fourth Monkey Death Boston Globe - March 1, 2012 Third Monkey Death Reported at Harvard's New England Regional Primate Research Center Boston.com - February 29, 2012 With Last Monkeys Dead, University of Toronto Sees Shift in Animal Research The Globe and Mail - February 26, 2012 Stem Cell Implants Boost Monkeys with Parkinson's Disease AFP - February 25, 2012 University of Toronto Stops Research on Live Monkeys The Star - February 25, 2012 Stop Research on Chimpanzees Houma Today - February 14, 2012 Primate Study Offers Insight into the Relationship Between Diet and Earlier Puberty in Girls Channel 3000 - February 13, 2012 Saving Dogs From Cruel Wayne State Experiments Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine - February 12, 2012 Brain scans of monkeys and humans watching a cowboy movie show that areas that are functionally similar aren't always in the same place New Scientist - February 10, 2012 A Famous Gorilla Plays the Recorder, And We May All Learn Something NPR - February 5, 2012 What Happened to Queenie? How a stray dog is sold into animal research Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine - February 4, 2012 Bob Barker Wants UVa to Stop Training with Cats Daily Progress - January 29, 2012 Texas Biomed Fined for Animal Care Violations Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine - January 27, 2012 Nine Animals Died in Harvard-Affiliated Laboratories The Crimson - January 25, 2012 Third Monkey Death at Harvard Triggers Federal Probe of Primate Research Bloomberg - January 24, 2012 Interview with Primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh about Linguistic Abilities of Apes New Scientist - January 23, 2012 Freak Washing Machine Accident Boils Lab Monkey Alive NJ.com - January 22, 2012 Supreme Court Rules No Monkey Farm in Puerto Rico Caribbean News Now - January 21, 2012 Is This the Beginning of the End for Medical Research on Chimps? The Atlantic - January 21, 2012 Animal Studies Move From the Lab to the Lecture Hall New York Times - January 17, 2012 James Franco and Kevin Nealon on Sending U.S. Chimpanzees to Sanctuaries NPR - January 17, 2012 The Use of Primates in the EU American Antivivisection Society - January 16, 2012 Seal Rehabilitation and Research Center in Netherlands Saving Orphaned Pups Huffington Post - January 15, 2012 Air Canada Hopes to Ban Transportation of Monkeys for Laboratory Use The Star - January 12, 2012 Monkey Experiments Boost Hope for Human AIDS Vaccine NPR - January 7, 2012 Three Monkeys a Genetic Mishmash Science News - January 7, 2012 Scientists Tickle Animals to Find Laughter Clues BBC News - January 3, 2012 Click Here to View/Hide 2011 Research News Elevation of the Chimp May Reshape Research New York Times - December 23, 2011 Chimps Work in Labs Limited; Some See an End to Ape Studies Live Science - December 23, 2011 New Chimp Rules Present Research Complications My San Antonio - December 22, 2011 For Sale: Infamous Chimp Lab El Paso Inc - December 21, 2011 U.S. Will Not Finance New Research on Chimps New York Times - December 20, 2011 NEAVS/ Project R&R Weigh in on IOM Chimpanzee Report NEAVS - December 19, 2011 Most Research on Chimps is Unnecessary, U.S. Panel Says New York Times - December 15, 2011 The Gibbon Conservation Center's Next Steps LA Weekly - December 12, 2011 Briefing on release of Committee report, "Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research: Assessing the Necessity" Institute of Medicine of the National Academies - December 11, 2011 A Monkey Experiment Paves the Way Towards HIV Functional Cure PR Web - December 10, 2011 NIH Accused of Dishonesty Over Chimp Research Plans Wired - December 7, 2011 Watchdog Group Claims Texas Primate Lab Broke the Law KZTV10 - December 2, 2011 Lab Beagles Released in Spain, 0 Dogs See Sunlight for First Time Huffington Post - December 2, 2011 No Testing on Chimps? The Daily Iberian - November 29, 2011 Robert Sapolsky on Stress - An Interview Boing Boing - November 27, 2011 Stop Wasting Tax Dollars on Chimp Abuse McClatchy - November 27, 2011 Texas Biomed Researchers Working on Ebola Vaccine My San Antonio - November 23, 2011 University Forced to Come Clean About Controversial Primate Experiments The Independent - November 22, 2011 Leading US Primate Lab Charged With Illegal Chimp Breeding Wired - November 22, 2011 Experimental Drug Melts the Fat Off Chunky Monkeys NPR - November 21, 2011 Chimps May Be Out as Lab Animals and Pets Seattle Times - November 13, 2011 His Apes Sang Early on the Day Gibbon Researcher Died Mercury News - November 8, 2011 F rans de Waal's beautiful eulogy for primatologist Toshisada Nishida: Chimpanzee Rapport PLOS Biology - November 3, 2011 Victory: Monkey Breeding Facility Construction Denied by Puerto Rico Court of Appeals Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine - October 28, 2011 Germany Must Do More to Encourage Dialogue on Animal Experimentation Nature - October 27, 2011 UW Fined in Primate Death Seattle Times - October 22, 2011 Genomic Sequence and Comparison of 2 Macaques Reveals New Insights into Biomedical Research Beijing Genomics Institute - October 19, 2011 Facility Runs Research Tests on St. Kitts Monkeys Yale Daily News - October 19, 2011 Army Agrees to Phase Out Use of Animal Nerve Gas Testing Washington Post - October 18, 2011 Iran's Attempt to Launch a Monkey into Space Ends in Failure LA Times - October 17, 2011 Monkey Study May Have Benefit for Paralytics Duke Chronicle - October 17, 2011 Experimental Vaccine Protects Monkeys from Blinding Trachoma Science Daily - October 13, 2011 Monkeys' Brain Waves Offer Paraplegics Hope BBC - October 9, 2011 Use of Primates Pits Animal Rights Groups vs. Researchers Sun-Sentinel - October 7, 2011 Jane Goodall Talks Women in Science Huffington Post - October 7, 2011 No Retirement in Sight for Aging Research Chimpanzee Atlanta Journal-Constitution - October 7, 2011 Monkeys Meditate for Marshmallows New Scientist - October 6, 2011 An Audience with Koko, the "Talking" Gorilla The Telegraph - October 5, 2011 Contagion Connections: How Links Among Humans, Animals, and the Environment May Be Spawning a New Breed of Infectious Diseases Huffington Post - October 3, 2011 Jane Goodall Documentary Commemorates 50 Years of Pioneer Research Huffington Post - September 27, 2011 Ban Chimp Testing: Scientific American Scientific American - September 27, 2011 PCRM: Congress Must Halt Military's Monkey Use in Chemical Casualty Training Roll Call - September 23, 2011 Join Kristin Bauer in Speaking Out for Chimpanzees Physicans Committee for Responsible Medicine - September 9, 2011 Scientist Snoozes For Six Nights in Chimp Nests Live Science - September 9, 2011 Young Scientist, Waiting for Baboons to Do Something New York Times - September 7, 2011 How Do You Figure Out How Chimps Learn? Peanuts Scientific American - September 5, 2011 Monkey-nomics: Scientists Claim Capuchin Monkeys Understand Using Money and Sniffing Out a Bargain Daily Mail - September 5, 2011 Infant Stress in Monkeys Has Life Long Consequences BBC - August 26, 2011 Search for Missing Research Monkey in Georgia Ends Without Resolution AJC - August 26, 2011 USDA Cites Harvard Research Facility in Death of Primate Boston Globe - August 18, 2011 Chimpanzee Research an Endangered Species as Experts Debate Usefulness, Ethics Washington Post - August 15, 2011 Scientists Debate Ending Chimp Research Newser - August 14, 2011 Doctor's Comment on Debate on Use of Chimpanzees in Experiments PCRM - August 13, 2011 Charting Brain Growth in Humans and Chimps New York Times - August 13, 2011 Proposed Ban on Ape Research Caps Summer of the Chimps Scientific American - August 12, 2011 Most Experiments on Monkeys Have Little Medical Benefit Telegraph UK - August 6, 2011 Singing Frog Leads to Insights into Human Hearing Mongabay - August 6, 2011 New Study Calls Into Question Reliance on Animal Models in Cardiovascular Research Washington University in St. Louis Newsroom - August 5, 2011 Researchers Develop Facial Recognition Software for Chimpanzees Wired - August 4, 2011 Genetically Modified Beagle Glows Discovery News - August 1, 2011 GPS-Wearing Tucans Help Scientists Study Seed Dispersal Science Daily - July 29, 2011 Video interview with Bob Ingersoll who worked with Nim Chimpsky, the chimpanzee who is the subject of the new documentary, Project Nim News OK - July 23, 2011 BOTOX Makers Drastically Reduce Animal Testing PCRM - July 19, 2011 Psychiatric Disorders in Lab Chimpanzees Mirror Those in Human Trauma Survivors, New Study Finds PCRM News - June 22, 2011 New Virus Jumps From Monkeys to Lab Workers Science Magazine - July 16, 2011 Experts Grow Whole Tooth Units Using Mouse Stem Cells Mother Nature Network - July 17, 2011 Monkeys Catapult Themselves Out of Primate Research Institute Tree Hugger - July 7, 2010/ posted July 21, 2011 Chimp Recognizes Synthetic Speech BBC Nature - July 7, 2011 Evolutionary Biologist at Duke Uses Jane Goodall's Research to Learn More About Chimpanzees The Chronicle of Higher Education - June 30, 2011 MGH Stops Trauma Training on Animals PCRM Dr. Barnard's Blog - May 6, 2011/ posted May 8, 2011 Boston.com - May 4, 2011 Monkeys Fattened Up to Study Human Obesity NYTimes - February 20, 2011 Humans Can Accurately Size Up a Chimp's Personality after Viewing Its Face Scientific American - January 25, 2011/ posted February 5, 2011 Back to Top	More News by Category: Exotic Animal Black Market General Animal-Related and Environmental News International Pets and Domesticated Animals Primate News - General Research Sanctuaries United States Zoos Back to Current Headlines Donations can be mailed or conveniently made online. 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