Lab monkeys at $30-80K each: a 4-year breeding cycle is the real preclinical drug bottleneck
zebird0 · x · 2026-10-27
Citrini argues the real preclinical bottleneck is monkeys, which take four years to breed and are harder to scale than memory supply. Naive NHPs run $30-50K in China and $50-80K in the US. The discussion also looks toward simulating toxicology studies in silico as a long-term alternative.
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