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triffid_boy t1_iw40zwc wrote

Reply to comment by Cersad in How do medical researchers obtain lab animals with diseases like specific forms of cancer which arise spontaneously? Do they raise thousands of apes and hope some eventually develop the disease? by userbrn1

I mean sure, but you said could feasibly be studied since those recent papers - they were feasible models for a long time now.

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Cersad t1_iw422d5 wrote

I thought the CRISPR in primates only dated back to 2018-ish, but my memory could be a bit hazy. In the world of NHP research, six years is less than the useful life of the rhesus macaques I've seen in labs.

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