A new study published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia reports that a novel vaccine targeting a toxic form of the tau ...

Born in a forest in Cambodia, a tiny macaque clings to her mother, surrounded by her grandmother and sisters. In their ...

PETA and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine have been hammering OHSU as it tries to buy Legacy.

South Carolina’s Morgan Island, also known as Monkey Island, has the largest rhesus monkey colony in the US. It was also ...

“UMass harmed small monkeys in pointless experiments and then tried to hide what it was doing by flouting open records laws,” PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo said in a statement.

PETA, which opposes the use of animals for research, said the monkeys could have been given to caretakers or sanctuaries. “Experiments on animals fail to produce cures and treatments for humans ...

Harvard’s Dr. Sarah Fortune had warned that rhesus macaque test subjects could be euthanized because of a federal grant freeze.

Scientists from the Sensorimotor Research Group at the DPZ investigated this problem of visual uncertainty during movement control in their study with rhesus monkeys. In the experiment ...

But what happens if this information is inaccurate? In the experiment, the monkeys moved a cursor on a screen by hand, using a kind of joystick. Two types of uncertainty were investigated.

Despite being known for more than 150 years, Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) remains an untreatable disease affecting approximately 1 of every 3,500-5,000 males. Muscles in patients express no or ...