In tourist hotspots around the world, monkeys steal phones, extort snacks, and rule streets like tiny crime bosses. At first ...

This story is part of a collaboration with The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina. A federal health agency that has promised to scale back its animal research has drawn the attention of ...

NEW YORK – Doctors may one day be able to control a patient’s HIV infection in a new way: injecting swarms of germ-fighting antibodies, two new studies suggest. In monkeys, that strategy sharply ...

After years of fighting over the use of animals for research, the University of Massachusetts Amherst and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have settled a 2022 public records lawsuit.

Emory University’s National Primate Research Center — formerly Yerkes — has, for decades, sold the public and federal funders on the illusion that its experiments on primates drive scientific progress ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo collage of rhesus monkeys on top of microscope photography of cells. Researchers in China have successfully cloned the first ...

Automaker Volkswagen has suspended its head of external relations and sustainability in response to widespread public criticism over experiments in which monkeys were exposed to diesel exhaust. The ...

Former National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins used a private email to discuss an NIH lab’s history of traumatizing baby monkeys as he sought to contain a brewing scandal and kept ...