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Saint: Institute of Medicine In December the institute recommended that the United States severely curtail its use of chimpanzees, man's closest relative, in medical researcIn December the institute recommended that the United States severely curtail its use of chimpanzees, man's closest relative, in medical researcin medical research.

Then, in June of last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service stated that all U.S. chimpanzees — including the more than 700 chimps used in research — would be classified as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.

Indeed, according to new federal rules, neither NIRC nor any other facility can use chimpanzees in research without justifying that the work enhances the survival of the species.

A decision in June by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to list captive chimpanzees as endangered added another hurdle by requiring a permit to use any of the 700 research chimpanzees in the country in invasive research.

Chimpanzees are popular subjects for AIDS research (even though their immune system rarely succumbs to the virus) and are used in painful cancer and psychological tests, as well as for research on blood diseases and organ transplants.

NIAID leases chimpanzees for use in infectious disease research at other accredited facilities.»)

Ebola vaccine for chimps works but may never be used Chimpanzees threatened by an Ebola outbreak could be protected by a new vaccine, but cuts in chimp research may stymie its development

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has accepted recommendations from an outside review committee to curtail the use of chimpanzees in biomedical research.

«I want to assure you that NIH is committed to the continued use of chimpanzees in biomedical research,» Snyder wrote.

In a watershed moment for chimpanzee research, the U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report on December 15 declaring that «most current use of chimpanzees for biomedical research is unnecessary» and recommending the sharp curtailing of government - funded research on humankind's closest genetic relative.

Seventeen raters who work closely and directly with chimpanzees used the scale to assess 99 chimpanzees in their care at the Michale E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Bastrop, Texas.

This approach also has limitations as it impedes comparisons with findings in other studies and other species, which is essential if you want to use research on chimpanzees to better understand the evolution of human personality traits.»

However, it also concludes that the emergence or re-emergence of infectious diseases may require the use of chimpanzees as research subjects in the future.

The most recent blow came in June, when FWS stated that all U.S. chimpanzees — including the more than 700 chimps used in research — would be classified as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

If NIH follows through on the report, «Clearly there is going to be a reduction in the use of chimpanzees in research,» said veterinary researcher K. C. Kent Lloyd of the University of California, Davis, who chaired the working group of the NIH Council of Councils, to reporters.

The other erstwhile committee member was veterinarian Leticia Medina of Abbott Laboratories, which has used chimpanzees in hepatitis C research.

In December 2011, an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report found that most research on chimpanzees is unnecessary and that NIH should limit the animals» use.

New research shows a difference between the sexes in immature chimpanzees when it comes to preparing for adulthood by practising object manipulation — considered «preparation» for tool use in later life.

It is not legal in the UK to carry out research using great apes (for example chimpanzees and gorillas).

Koops, in collaboration with colleagues from Kyoto University, conducted painstaking research tracking communities of wild chimpanzees and bonobos in Uganda and Congo for months, cataloguing not just all tool use, but also all potential for tool use in terms of the different environments and social time spent.

First, Dr. John Pippin discussed the great news of the vanishing use of chimpanzees in medical research.

To provide humane, lifetime care for chimpanzees no longer used in biomedical research, as pets or as entertainers and; to educate the public on the needs for conservation in the wild and protection in captivity.

In hopes of learning more about the phenomenon, Allison compared his findings with 24 other data samples collected for animals ranging from domesticated dogs and cats to feral rats and chimpanzees used for research — and what it pointed to was quite troubling.

And while inconvenience might be a stumbling block — think of the use of chimpanzees in research — I should have thought that «the law» would in fact be the major difficulty, given pretty much everything about it, from its origins in a democratic process (of sorts) to its ineluctably verbal nature at every turn, features that make it inapt to the participation of non-verbal creatures.