The 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the planet. And for more than a century, they have held a mirror to humanity, ...

Genome editing is making its way toward the clinic. Zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs), transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENS), and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic ...

Pacing behaviour, the most frequent stereotypic behaviour displayed by laboratory rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) is often used as an indicator of stress. In this study, we investigated how reliable ...

The psychological well-being of laboratory primates is enhanced when they are allowed to voluntarily participate in their own care through a process called positive reinforcement training (PRT).

A leading animal rights group said it takes issue with the way state police euthanized three lab monkeys that escaped following a Jan. 21 accident near Danville. “We don’t know who gave the order to ...

Booming demand for laboratory animals in China’s pharmaceutical industry is fueling a massive illegal trade in wild-caught monkeys, with thousands of live primates smuggled into the country for use in ...

The September death of a macaque in a Legacy Health animal lab has drawn the ire of activists. The macaque died during a Sept. 9 procedure in which an anesthesia machine was used incorrectly. A ...

A silent prion signal in symptom-free primates is forcing scientists to rethink what “healthy” can hide in chronic wasting ...

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