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A radio host in Kamchatka in the Far East has been taken off the airwaves after she compared Russians who voted for President Vladimir Putin to primates. Nearly 77 percent of voters on Sunday gave Putin a fourth presidential term amid reports of ballot-stuffing and state employers pressuring workers to ...

The aim: to find cures for mental health conditions and neurological illnesses such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Around the world, more than 100,000 monkeys and apes are used for biomedical research every year. Oxford University, Edinburgh University, University College London, King's College ...

All primates appear to dream, but each species exhibits its own unique sleeping characteristics and durations, with humans having perhaps the most unusual sleep of any such animal. The findings, reported in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, include the observation that humans sleep far ...

The study looked at the amount of time that different primates spend sleeping. In doing so, they found that primates vary widely in their sleep durations. (See the figure below.) Most species sleep somewhere between nine and 15 hours a day, with humans averaging around seven. Remarkably, of the 30 ...

Primate Research Company Alpha Genesis is in full compliance with regulations and standards of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), according to findings by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) following a comprehensive inspection, Company officials said today. The USDA conducted their ...

In the study, scientists from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) led by Dr Dan Barouch, and their collaborators first infected 44 rhesus macaques with simian-human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV), an HIV-like virus commonly used in nonhuman primate studies. They then initiated daily ...

An Indonesian zoo infamous for mistreatment of animals is being slammed again by activists after a video emerged of one of its orangutans smoking. Activist Marison Guciano filmed a video on Sunday that shows a young man flicking his half-smoked cigarette into the primate's enclosure. It's picked up by ...

The two existing primates of the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia (ANZP) have announced that the province's third primate will be Bishop Don Tamihere, currently bishop of Tairawhiti. The Church of ANZP is unique in the Anglican Communion in having three primates of the whole ...

In the study, scientists from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) led by Dr Dan Barouch, and their collaborators first infected 44 rhesus macaques with simian-human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV), an HIV-like virus commonly used in nonhuman primate studies. They then initiated daily ...

Introduction: DNA nanoparticles (NPs) comprising polylysine conjugated to polyethylene glycol efficiently target murine photoreceptors and the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and lead to long-term phenotypic improvement in models of retinal degeneration. Advancing this technology requires testing in a ...

SNOOZE TIME Humans get much less sleep than expected for a primate with our biological and lifestyle characteristics, a study finds. Most other studied primates, including ring-tailed lemurs like these, sleep about as much on average as researchers estimated they should. arrowsg/iStockphoto. Email.

“Great teamwork of @lwirocrpl and Virunga National Park to save this baby out of the hands of poachers,” writes Caere in his Instagram post. “We flew baby Mussa to his new home at Lwiro Primates. This looks cute but is actually a sad story. He should be with his mum.. But happy we could give him a new ...

Several sanctuaries, including the Primate Rescue Center (Kentucky) and Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary (Florida), began with founders adopting pet primates. And an archived version of the Chimps Inc. website says that Lesley Day acquired a spider monkey in the 1980s who escaped from her house ...

Acknowledging the importance of primate studies to address existing issues prior to human trials, the researchers developed a protocol for successfully grafting NPCs into primates. The primate protocol differed from rodent protocols in a number of aspects. These included modifications to the grafting matrix, ...

Yet while computer generated imagery is now good enough to create realistic looking animals on screen, some movies still employ actual non-human primates. In the last few years, primate actors have been used in major Hollywood films such as The Hangover Part II (2011), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) ...

Much of our knowledge about the important effects of circadian rhythms in physiology comes from studies of mice, which are nocturnal. Mure et al. report transcriptional profiles from many tissues and brain regions in baboons over a 24-hour period (see the Perspective by Millius and Ueda). The results ...

In the Yerkes and Mount Sinai study, the research team sought to determine whether non-surgical exposure to sevoflurane, an inhaled anesthetic commonly used with children, could lead to cognitive and behavioral alterations in a nonhuman primate (NHP) model. A translational animal model for this type ...