Dr Lisa Jones-Engel knows more about macaques than anyone else in the world. One of the most decorated scientists at the University of Washington’s primate centre, she spent much of her life working ...

As fundraising and out-licensing deals in China grow, so does demand for monkeys and other primates for testing China's ...

Long-tailed macaques face extinction as Charles River Laboratories profits from exploiting these intelligent primates for biomedical research, igniting a debate over the ethics of animal testing and ...

This week, U.S. healthcare workers began receiving the first doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine – and we almost certainly have monkeys to thank for that. Monkeys and other nonhuman test subjects have ...

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 ...

The 7News I-Team has learned 1,296 monkeys, some being held in Frederick, Maryland, are being released to Charles River Labs after more than 2 and a half years in federal custody. In its ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued guidance for sponsors in reducing testing of single-target monoclonal antibodies in monkeys from six months to three months, or even eliminating ...

The mice cages tend to be quiet. On a recent walk through the animal labs at the University of Washington in Seattle, the ferrets were listening to ocean and bird sounds. But the monkeys at the ...