Government scientists defend medical research experiments on primates

By Fergus Hunter
Updated February 5 2016 - 7:18pm, first published 5:58pm
Associate Professor James Bourne from Monash University Photo: Penny Stephens
Associate Professor James Bourne from Monash University Photo: Penny Stephens
A baboon, part of a colony breeding program, sits behind security fencing at the National Health and Medical Research Council facility in Wallacia in Sydney's west.  Photo: Dallas Kilponen
A baboon, part of a colony breeding program, sits behind security fencing at the National Health and Medical Research Council facility in Wallacia in Sydney's west. Photo: Dallas Kilponen

Government-appointed scientists have defended the use of monkeys for biomedical research as essential to developing life-saving treatments for humans and dismissed accusations of cruelty and incompetence in Australian facilities.

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