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Alpha Genesis President and CEO Dr. Greg Westergaard told The Hampton County Guardian during a 2011 interview that the facility is "primarily a breeding facility," and that they raise the ...
YEMASSEE, S.C. (WTOC) - The CEO of Alpha Genesis, the testing facility where 43 monkeys escaped from last week, has given an update on the employee who may have left doors open, allowing for the ...
One monkey has been captured after 43 monkeys escaped from Alpha Genesis, a primate research facility in Yemassee, South Carolina, this week.. Yemassee is a small town about 26 miles from Beaufort ...
Alpha Genesis was established in 1964 to provide animals for polio vaccine research, per the Guardian. Animals raised in Yemassee are sold only to USDA-licensed research facilities, Alpha Genesis ...
With four primates still on the loose after 43 of them escaped on Nov. 6 from the Alpha Genesis Inc. research laboratory in South Carolina, the Low Country facility has come under intense scrutiny.
Police in Yemassee, in Beaufort County, said the Rhesus macaque primates escaped from Alpha Genesis, a business that provides "nonhuman primate products and bio-research services," according to ...
Last Wednesday, 43 young female Rhesus monkeys bred for scientific and medical research escaped from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in Yemassee, prompting international media coverage ...
Alpha Genesis CEO Greg Westergaard took to social media to issue a response to the advocacy group, seen below. Alpha Genesis, Facebook PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo responded to ...
The search continues for 40-plus primates that escaped Wednesday from Alpha Genesis research facility in South Carolina.What is Alpha Genesis? According to the company's website, Alpha Genesis ...
The four rhesus macaques were the last of a larger group of 43 female monkeys that hightailed it on Nov. 6, 2024, after an employee at Alpha Genesis intentionally left the door open to their ...
Most of the 43 monkeys that escaped Wednesday from Alpha Genesis are hanging out in the trees in the forest just beyond the facility’s fence line, the company’s owner said Friday morning.
But communications exchanged between the agency and a manager at Alpha Genesis leave questions about the diligence of their reviews. Animal rights groups have long complained about what they ...