Activists should quit monkeying with lifesaving research

Alzheimer’s research is a matter of life and death. But it also involves a lot of monkey business -- literally. The scientists working to cure Alzheimer’s rely heavily on monkeys because humans and monkeys share extremely similar pre-frontal cortices, the part of the brain that controls memory, concentration and personality. Nonhuman primates are the key to unders...

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