Adapting Chinese cities to climate change
Save the world’s
primates in peril
IN HIS IN DEPTH News story “ Chimpanzee
sanctuaries open door to more research” (29
July, p. 433), D. Grimm argues that partnerships between sanctuaries and research
centers could see laboratory chimpanzees
become extinct. This conclusion might be
optimistic, given that new demands for
precision medicine and neuroscience
projects may lead to greater use of some
species of primates in biomedical research.
Worse yet, continued investment in
research animals exacerbates the situation
of wild primates in peril.
