When a biotechnology company sold the property upon which its primary animal facility was found, it moved its crab-eating macaques (Macaca fascicularis) to a facility run by a contract research ...

The Association of Indian Primatologists said deforestation and climate change could lead to higher temperatures, which the ...

Scientists have found that an oral antiviral drug successfully prevents monkeys from dying after an Ebola infection, an advance that may prevent future outbreaks of the deadly virus. The deadly Ebola ...

Primate species in research include rhesus macaques, long-tailed (a.k.a. crab-eating or cynomolgus) macaques, stump-tailed macaques, pig-tailed macaques, squirrel monkeys, owl monkeys, African green ...

When the vaccine was administered on crab-eating macaques, the animals became infected with HIV, but further tests could not detect the virus, the team said. The vaccinated macaques were then ...