http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/nih-hosts-nonhuman-primate-workshop-amidst-increased-scrutiny-monkey-research

A scientist holds a baby marmoset, an increasingly in-demand animal in biomedical research.

More than 3 years after it hosted a workshop on the science and ethics of biomedical studies on monkeys, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) this week convened another workshop on nonhuman primate research. And much like the previous event, the meeting is drawing sharply divergent reactions from biomedical and animal advocacy groups.