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Krazski t1_iw3xn8j wrote

Reply to comment by Chiperoni in How do medical researchers obtain lab animals with diseases like specific forms of cancer which arise spontaneously? Do they raise thousands of apes and hope some eventually develop the disease? by userbrn1

We don't test on apes anymore, we still do a lot of toxicology testing in macaques though.

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BigFaceCoffeeShop t1_iw4oii8 wrote

Sure we do. A lot of neuroscience research is done on larger NHPs. They offer a few important advantages including larger brains (so your probe to tissue ratio is better), more similar behaviour to humans, and higher intelligence.

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kitt_mitt t1_iw4vuno wrote

Depends on the research. My institute uses macaques and marmosets for parkinsons and MS research.

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