@article{3dc416d6ce924fd98f677bec3b1cb1c0,
title = "A unique biomedical resource at risk",
abstract = "Research using chimpanzees has been crucial in the fight against human diseases such as hepatitis. John L. VandeBerg, Stuart M. Zola and colleagues urge that this now dwindling resource be sustained.",
author = "VandeBerg, {John L.} and Zola, {Stuart M.} and Jo Fritz and Lee, {D. Rick} and Rowell, {Thomas J.} and Satterfield, {William C.}",
note = "Funding Information: In 1997, the National Research Council Committee on Long-term Care of Chim panzees, funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), published a landmark report8. Two of the committee{\textquoteright}s recommendations have had a profound impact on the national chimpanzee resource. These were that “a breeding moratorium should be imposed for at least five years (1997–2001)” and that “sanc-tuaries capable of providing for the long-term care and well-being of chimpanzees that are no longer needed for research and breeding should be established.” It is important to note that these recommendations were made following what seemed to have been an overproduction of chimpanzees in response to the discovery that chimpanzees were the only animal that could be infected with HIV-1; it was believed that large numbers of chimpanzees would be required for fundamental research on AIDS and for testing potential AIDS vaccines.",
year = "2005",
month = sep,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1038/437030a",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "437",
pages = "30--32",
journal = "Nature",
issn = "0028-0836",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "7055",
}