Harvard To Close New England Primate Research Center

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 25, 2013 @03:29AM from the monkey-changes-everything dept.

sciencehabit writes "Citing an increasingly bleak outlook for federal research funding, Harvard Medical School is shutting down its major primate center, which has recently experienced the departure of several key scientists and an investigation into its handling of animals. In the announcement, which surprised many primate researchers, the school said it will not seek to renew the New England Primate Research Center's (NEPRC's) 5-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and will 'wind down operations' at the center in Southborough, Massachusetts, over the next 2 years. The center, which has a nearly 50-year history, had done groundbreaking work on an AIDS vaccine and developed animal models for diseases such as Parkinson's, among other accomplishments."

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Re:Not tested on animals by TheGratefulNet · 2013-04-25 03:34 · Score: 3, Funny

colbert's opening line (from years ago) fits well here:
"no animals were harmed during the making of this work. we tried, but that monkey was just too damned fast!"

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Re:what about the monkeys? by fazey · 2013-04-25 03:48 · Score: 3, Funny

i suppose they could all get into politics like the rest of the monkeys in DC
Re:what about the monkeys? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-25 04:25 · Score: 4, Funny

That is a horrid, racist remark. Reported to administrators.
True.
It REALLY pissed off the monkeys.
Re:here's the real question by slashmydots · 2013-04-25 09:14 · Score: 1, Funny

Well that's a seriously offensive statement. Monkeys with aids are just as fun and amazing and intelligent as ones without AIDS. See you at the cross burning, Adolph.