$MACAQUES
A meme born from a real-world shortage: lab macaques became one of biotech’s strangest high-demand assets, and the internet noticed.
Community meme project. Not affiliated with any laboratory, publisher, or news outlet.
China’s biotech expansion collided with a limited supply of research macaques. As demand for preclinical testing grew, prices reportedly climbed sharply — creating the kind of weird, instantly understandable bottleneck that spreads fast on finance and crypto X.
The phrase “Chinese Lab Monkey” became a punchline, a scarcity narrative, and now a meme. $MACAQUES is built around that moment.
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