"More Expensive Than a Worker's Salary": Price of Laboratory Monkeys in China Doubles in Five Years

As new drug research surges in China, the price of a single laboratory monkey has reportedly soared to around 30 million won. On the 18th (local ...

China’s biotech boom sends price of lab monkeys for drug tests climbing

The cost of a single monkey exceeds the average annual salary in China and approaches a pandemic-era spike amid growth in drug licensing deals A surge in drug research in China has driven the cost of ...

Could lab monkeys soon become a thing of the past?

Thomas Kuhn, the 20th-century historian of science who coined the phrase “paradigm shift,” had a name for such breakdowns in ...
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SC plays a major role in US primate research. As funding cuts loom, what happens to the monkeys? (copy)

The use of primates for experiments in U.S. laboratories has soared over the past decade as scientists rely on them to test drug safety and study human maladies. They are the closest living relatives ...