Brain implants allow paralysed monkeys to walk
"For more than a decade, neuroscientist Grégoire Courtine has been flying every few months from his lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne to another lab in Beijing, China, where he conducts research on monkeys with the aim of treating spinal-cord injuries.The commute is exhausting — on occasion he has even flown to Beijing, done experiments, and returned the same night. But it is worth it, says Courtine, because working with monkeys in China is less burdened by regulation than it is in Europe and the United States"I personally know researchers who have to take similar measures to be able to do their research.When we are happy as a society to slaughter billions of animals every year for food (usually keeping them in appalling  conditions beforehand) I don't understand how we can justify the restrictions we put on scientists.