New research shows rhesus monkeys categorize facial expressions as context-dependent social signals shaped by the whole face ...

Headed... League"Chapter 1: The Old Man with the Fiery "Red Hair"That morning, the person who knocked on the door of 221B ...

The primate research conducted at UW-Madison’s Harlow Lab and Wisconsin National Primate Research Center has been the subject of controversy for many years.

A new review in Nature Reviews Urology synthesizes how animal models of diabetes, obesity, dyslipidaemia and hypertension reveal the mechanisms linking metabolic syndrome to bladder dysfunction.

More than 100 laboratory animals are waiting to be rehomed as the Department of Health and Human Services seeks to reduce reliance on animal testing. The HHS touted its latest initiatives last week to ...

The Health Department recently touted an effort by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “substantially reducing its ...

The marmoset brain starts out with the same layout as folded primate brains, but slower-dividing, simpler cells help keep it ...

You (probably) won't find a monkey in a geometry class, but it looks like our fellow primates can swing the basics.

Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) are dietary generalists, which is the single most important fact about them. Where a specialist frugivore needs intact forest, a rhesus monkey can extract nutrition ...

For generations, farmers in Nepal’s mid-hills have turned steep Himalayan slopes into productive farmland, building terraces to grow maize, millet, rice, potatoes and other crops where flat land is ...

For years, scientists were certain that two factors were involved in the assembly of active, highly infectious Zika viruses in human cells: a specific viral protein in its entirety and a turncoat ...