ANIMAL-TESTING LATEST — The Trump administration got one step closer to its goal of reducing federally funded primate testing Monday. The largest of seven NIH-funded national primate research centers ...

Born Free, the wildlife charity, has warned that Punch's viral fame could do more harm than good—for him and for his species.

The zoo says Punch is adjusting to troop life amid growing attention, with staff insisting “animal welfare is the top ...

Thomas Kuhn, the 20th-century historian of science who coined the phrase “paradigm shift,” had a name for such breakdowns in ...

A Japanese macaque named Punch has gone viral. A biologist explains how his journey from abandonment to social integration ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — For weeks, the future of the Oregon National Primate Research Center at OHSU has been heated and controversial topic. Should they continue research that brings in millions of dollars ...

A urinalysis shows that these apes ingest significant amounts of alcohol, providing new clues to how alcohol influences the animals’ behavior ...

Gene therapy has been successfully used to treat a number of diseases, including immune deficiencies, hereditary blindness, ...

New research suggests that super-agers generate twice as many neurons as typical older adults. But you don't have to be a ...

The urine of chimpanzees contains high levels of alcohol byproduct, most likely because the chimps regularly gorge themselves on fermented fruit, according to a new paper published in the journal ...

The National Institutes of Health recently announced plans to convert one of its long-standing primate research centers into an animal sanctuary. The decision builds on broader bipartisan mo ...