The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit medical ethics group, is filing a complaint on Monday, May 19, ...

In the lawsuit, filed in Suffolk County Superior Court in Boston, PETA said that UMass researchers perform experiments that mistreat animals and house creatures, including marmoset monkeys and ...

A new study published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia reports that a novel vaccine targeting a toxic form of the tau protein generated a strong and long-lasting immune response in mice and ...

The animals are rhesus monkeys. As many as 4,000 ... Nancy Mace, a Charleston Republican, has condemned the “barbaric” experiments its monkeys are used for following an island boat tour ...

“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.

The animals underwent potentially painful procedures with anesthesia and analgesia provided during a 22-week experiment ... the care of rhesus macaques, a species of Old World monkey, without ...

which has received more than $113 million in federal funds to maintain breeding services for monkeys used in research and to conduct laboratory experiments at a facility on the property.

What was the experiment about? The brown capuchin monkey, which has been regarded as one of the smartest New World monkeys, has become the subject of amazing research at Yale University.

The monkeys that escaped are rhesus macaques primates, described as "very young females weighing approximately 6 - 7 lbs". Rhesus macaques, originally from Asia, have come to inhabit the swampy ...