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The US is boosting funding for research monkeys in the wake of COVID

The investments are promising but won’t fix the primate shortage, experts say.
  1. Nidhi Subbaraman
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The US government is investing heavily to breed more monkeys at the national facilities that house primates for biomedical research, Nature has learnt. The goal is to offset an ongoing shortage of these animals, which grew worse in 2020 as scientists tested scores of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments on primates before trials began in people.

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Nature 595, 633-634 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01894-z

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