- Wednesday, March 10, 2010, 14:52
- Animal Experimentation, In the News
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) proposes testing gamma radiation on a group of squirrel monkeys, according to a statement posted by Brookhaven National Lab (BNL).
“Squirrel monkeys would receive a level of radiation similar to what an astronaut would encounter on a Mars mission,” the BNL statement explains.
“The monkeys would then live out the remainder of their natural lifetime at McLean , while researchers ...
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