The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...

Animal rights groups celebrate, but the Trump administration is light on specifics about phasing out federally funded medical ...

Following the recent indictments of several people allegedly involved in a monkey-smuggling operation, Cambodia has halted exports of non-human primates that are widely used in pharmaceutical research ...

A new review was published in Aging (listed by MEDLINE/PubMed as "Aging (Albany NY)" and "Aging-US" by Web of Science), on October 29, 2024, Volume 16, Issue 20, titled, "Brain aging and Alzheimer's ...

A single injection of a novel CRISPR gene-editing treatment safely and efficiently removes SIV -- a virus related to the AIDS-causing agent HIV -- from the genomes of non-human primates, scientists ...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spreads from human to human primarily through droplet transmission. Viral RNA can be detected in nasal and saliva secretions, and sneezing ...

During the height of the pandemic, Jennifer Kwon, PhD, became one of the first scientists hired by a new company focused on epigenome editing—Tune Therapeutics. She joined the company almost ...

Tracie McKinney, senior lecturer in Biological Anthropology at the University of South Wales, Michelle Rodrigues assistant professor at Marquette University and Sian Waters honorary research fellow at ...

In a ground-breaking experiment, researchers have successfully created the first human-monkey chimera. The work, published in the journal Cell, describes the the first embryo containing both human and ...

Next time you're trying to size someone up, take a look at their thumbs. If they have particularly long thumbs, they might be especially clever, a new study suggests. Scientists at the University of ...