But to their knowledge, this is the first study that has tested gene therapy on a heart disease model in non-human primates. The team also believes that this approach may be particularly effective for ...

Primates range from small lemurs to mighty gorillas, each with unique traits. Some rely on intelligence, others on brute ...

Some primates even colonised Arctic regions. These early primates may have survived seasonally cold temperatures and a ...

The world's apes and monkeys are in serious trouble. About 60% of Earth’s non-human primate species, including apes, monkeys, gorillas, gibbons and lemurs, are threatened with extinction and ...

Rosin and Swamy’s research, published recently in the journal Neotropical Primates (see here for Rosin’s original thesis), has shown that small monkeys in hunted forests exhibit compensatory ...

The Little Rock Zoo announced the birth of a male colobus monkey just ahead of International Primate Day, and visitors can ...

Primate tourism, an economic benefit and conservation tool in many habitat countries, has exploded in popularity over the past two decades in places like China, Borneo, Uganda, Rwanda, Northern ...

Many paleontologists who study extinct primates favor omomyids and ancient tarsiers as being closer to monkeys and apes, but the authors of the new paper don't think so.

Fifty-nine days ago, a monkey in Shanghai gave birth to a clone. The infant was the first primate to be cloned using tissue cells, the technique that produced Dolly the sheep. A second monkey ...