Proposed megafacility to breed monkeys in U.S. dismays activists and neighbors but excites scientists
Bainbridge, a rural town in southwestern Georgia with a population of 14,000, could soon become home to 30,000 additional residents: cynomolgus macaques. A new company called Safer Human Medicine (SHM) has announced plans to build an 80-hectare facility that would sell monkeys to universities, contract research organizations, and pharmaceutical companies that perform research on the animals.
Bainbridge site offers opportunity to advance medical research
There has been much discussion in recent weeks about plans by Safer Human Medicine to build a facility in southern Georgia aimed at addressing the critical shortage of nonhuman primates, animals which are crucial to medical research in the United States.
FULL INTERVIEW: Company over Bainbridge monkey facility vows to build
In an exclusive interview with WALB, Safer Human Medicine (SHM), the company over the controversial Bainbridge monkey facility, vows that they will build the facility...
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