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Monkey experiments are not – and cannot be – "humane".
The BMI research – and the monkey experiments – are seeking ways in which computers can decode brain activity into commands for the muscles.
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Isobel Hutchinson Campaigner, Animal Aid Your editorial on monkey experiments was unbalanced and inaccurate.
The monkey experiments were paid for and overseen by the European Research Group on Environment and Health in the Transport Sector, known by its German initials, E.U.G.T. BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen financed the organization and all three companies had representatives on its board.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has responded to calls from members of Congress to investigate monkey experiments being carried out at a government lab.
► In a Thursday ScienceInsider, David Grimm reported that "[t]he National Institutes of Health (NIH) has responded to calls from members of Congress to investigate monkey experiments being carried out at a government lab.
Monkey experiments were performed in an Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care accredited facility following acceptance of study design by the Institute of Lab Animal Science Chinese Academy of Sciencee, Beijing, China) Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee.
Cynomolgus monkey experiments were conducted at Charles River Laboratories (Sparks, NV, USA) in accordance with Testing Facility Standard Operating Procedure, which adheres to the regulations outlined in the US Department of Agriculture Animal Welfare Act [ 26] and the conditions specified in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals [ 27].
That's why it's largely limited to rodents, though a few monkey experiments have been done.
The human subjects sat in front of the same screen as the animal, at the same distance (57 cm); the monkey experiments have been terminated 6 months before and the experimental setup cleaned.
But the contention, often made by animal-rights groups, that such experiments are useless because monkeys are not people, is not borne out by the long history of research in the area.The Cambridge project was opposed by many animal-rights groups from the beginning.
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