{"id":146375,"date":"2026-02-18T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146375"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:00:08","slug":"chinas-biotech-boom-sends-price-of-lab-monkeys-for-drug-tests-climbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146375","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s biotech boom sends price of lab monkeys for drug tests climbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA surge in drug research in China has driven the cost of a laboratory monkey to about 140,000 yuan (US$20,260), a sum that exceeds the country\u2019s average annual wage.<br \/>\nOfficial government procurement records showed that prices had doubled in the last five years for such monkeys, which are widely used in the preclinical stage to check whether a drug is safe and how it is absorbed, broken down and cleared by the body.<br \/>\nAnalysts said the soaring cost was underpinned by a flood of drug-licensing deals&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/china-business\/article\/3343819\/chinas-biotech-boom-sends-price-lab-monkeys-drug-tests-climbing?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA surge in drug research in China has driven the cost of a laboratory monkey to about 140,000 yuan (US$20,260), a sum that exceeds&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146375"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}