{"id":221314,"date":"2016-07-25T16:25:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T19:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/?p=221314"},"modified":"2016-07-25T16:25:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T19:25:37","slug":"no-more-primates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/no-more-primates\/","title":{"rendered":"No more primates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_221316\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-221316\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Estrat_Macaco.jpg\" alt=\"Now pending in Australia\u2019s parliament is a bill calling for a prohibition on the importation of lab monkeys into the country for clinical trials \" width=\"290\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Estrat_Macaco.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Estrat_Macaco-120x92.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Estrat_Macaco-250x192.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">TAMBAKO THE JAGUAR\/FLICKR<\/span>Now pending in Australia\u2019s parliament is a bill calling for a prohibition on the importation of lab monkeys into the country for clinical trials<span class=\"media-credits\">TAMBAKO THE JAGUAR\/FLICKR<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>A bill pending in Australia\u2019s parliament may lead to a prohibition on imports of marmosets and other monkey species for use in clinical trials.\u00a0 The proposed legislation is causing concern among the country\u2019s scientists, especially those that rely on regular imports to maintain the genetic diversity of its primate colony.\u00a0 According to Senator Lee Rhiannon, who introduced the bill, the measure would guarantee Australia\u2019s disassociation from the trade in wild primates captured for use in scientific experiments.\u00a0 However, scientists interviewed for the journal <em>Nature<\/em> say that Australian law already prohibits such experiments on wild primates.\u00a0 \u201cThe animals must be certified and supplied by a registered and licensed breeder from outside the country,\u201d explains James Bourne, president of the National Non-Human Primate breeding and Research Facility Board of Australia.\u00a0 In a published statement, the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) opposed the senate bill and stood beside the country\u2019s scientific community.\u00a0 Animal research, according to the FENS statement, \u201cremains the foundation for medical advances that can increase human life expectancy.\u201d\u00a0 In his support for the bill, Rhiannon not only favors alternative research methodologies, but points to the opportunity it provides for broadening the discourse surrounding animal research in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Import lab monkeys for clinical trials may be prohibited in Australia","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[230,390,247],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-221314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies","tag-ethics","tag-law","tag-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221314"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=221314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}