Updated: NIH to retire research chimps to sanctuary

The National Institutes of Health plans to retire the last colony of government-owned chimpanzees being held for biomedical research, the Journal has learned. The decision affects at least 50 chimpanzees, including 20 chimpanzees held in San Antonio that were used in decades of invasive testing at an Alamogordo research facility. In a Nov. 16 internal email obtained by the Journal, NIH director […]