In June, a Chinese state laboratory paid 178,000 yuan—about $26,294—for each of 40 cynomolgus macaques. Twelve months earlier, the same animal would have cost roughly half that.

The price of research monkeys in China has climbed toward $26,000, a bottleneck that captures how fast the country’s drug industry is scaling to rival the US.

To get regulatory clearance for biologics trials, companies often must provide monkey data to demonstrate human safety. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at…