Branwen Morgan PhD

Three years after applying for planning permission to build a new neuroscience center to house their non-human primates, Cambridge University’s application was finally accepted, generating an almost audible sigh of relief from many scientists across the UK.

The ‘state-of-the-art’ facility at Cambridge University will benefit the animals housed there, say researchers in Cambridge and beyond. Animal rights activists who are trying to prevent the building of the new facilities should ask themselves who their actions are benefiting, they add