ChimpanzeeBY BRADYPUS VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
The National Institutes of Health suspended all new chimpanzee research and accepted new guidelines limiting existing work. The announcement came just hours after an expert committee of the Institute of Medicine released recommendations that most research did not need chimpanzees. According to the new guidelines, chimpanzees can only be used if the work is necessary to further human health and there is no other way to do so.
The suspension of new research will be in place at least until an Institute of Medicine working group can decide how to implement the new recommendations, The New York Times reported. The current guidelines still leave open the possibility that new research will be allowed in the future. The ambiguity of the guidelines allowed both opponents of ...
