This is a quick review of the socio-cultural impact of the generation of genetically engineered monkey model of human diseases.
This work describe the reasons given to justify the experiments made on monkeys. It focus on the teams working on this research subject, who finances them, in which country they are located, what are there plan in the near future, etc … This review also look at the legal status of non-human primates and apes, and the jurisdiction and control of their use for scientific purpose. It also introduce some major controversies and the ethical issues to use monkeys in experiments.