$26,000 lab monkeys are the strange measure of China’s biotech boom

The clearest sign of China’s drug-development surge is not a molecule but a monkey. The price of a research primate there has climbed toward 150,000 yuan, roughly $26,000, and it keeps rising. That is a steep jump in a short time. The figure is up from an average of about 103,000 yuan in 2025,…