"PETA Urges NIH to Halt Funding for Cruel Sleep Experiment on Animals"

PETA has urged the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to halt funding for a planned University of Wisconsin-Madison study involving disrupting the sleep of aged marmosets to gather information about age-related cognitive decline, calling it "cruel and horrific." The study, funded by NIH, aims to understand the role of poor sleep in Alzheimer's disease, but PETA argues that the experiments cause distress and pain without relief and offer little to no new scientifically valuable knowledge or human benefit. The university defends the study's safety and importance, stating that nonhuman primates like marmosets share similar features of their biology with humans and offer opportunities to study the causes of Alzheimer’s and potential treatments.