Over 100,000 monkeys are used in U.S. biomedical research and endure severe suffering with little benefit to human health, argue Santa Cruz wildlife veterinarian Emily Talkington and attorney Mikalah Singer. They call on Congress to halt funding for primate research and support the National Institutes of Health’s new initiative promoting human-based alternatives like organoids and tissue chips. They point to innovative engineering work at UC Santa Cruz to grow brain organoids from human cells and stress that research on primates is cruel. Modern methods offer more ethical and effective paths to medical progress, they write.
