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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.

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Acknowledgements

We thank J. Barnwell, M. Galinski, R. E. Lanford, T. M. Preuss, R. H. Purcell, C. Walker, and S. Williams-Blangero for their suggestions and contributions to this manuscript. We also acknowledge support of our chimpanzee resources by NIH resource and research grants.

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  1. Stuart M. Zola: Co-authors are Jo Fritz who is at the Primate Foundation of Arizona, Mesa; D. Rick Lee who is at the Alamogordo Primate Facility, New Mexico; Thomas J. Rowell of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana; William C. Satterfield of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Bastrop, Texas.

  2. Stuart M. Zola: The authors are members of the US National Chimpanzee Resource Committee (NCRC) and include representatives of each of the major centres that maintain the national chimpanzee research resource.

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  1. Southwest National Primate Research Center, San Antonio, 78245, Texas, USA

    John L. VandeBerg

  2. Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, 30329, Georgia, USA

    Stuart M. Zola

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VandeBerg, J., Zola, S. A unique biomedical resource at risk. Nature 437, 30–32 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/437030a

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