http://www.chimpmindconference.org Improving animal management and wildlife conservation Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:19:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.chimpmindconference.org/animal-research/animal-studies.php http://www.chimpmindconference.org/animal-research/animal-studies.php#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:30:00 +0000 andihong http://www.chimpmindconference.org/animal-research/animal-studies.php PLoS Medicine is a sufficiently new journal that we are often doing something for the first time. This issue’’s first is the publication of a research article that reports data exclusively from animals, more precisely from six cynomolgus macaques used to test the efficacy of a new Lassa fever vaccine. There is no question that animal studies are an important part of medical research, but which ones, if any, belong in a medical journal? More to the point, which ones belong in PLoS Medicine? Although our journal’’s focus is on human studies, we have decided, on Read more

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