Every year on December 14th, World Monkey Day serves as a reason to celebrate these amazing animals. This year, we’re ...

UMass Amherst announced the closure of its controversial monkey testing lab on Thursday due to federal funding cuts. According to the Lacreuse Lab, led by Dr. Agnes Lacreuse, the researchers have been ...

AMHERST — A researcher whose controversial use of marmoset monkeys to unlock the secrets of Alzheimer’s, aging and women’s health drew the fury of PETA has closed her lab at the University of ...

Kathy Guillermo, PETA’s senior vice president, called the potential shift a major step forward for both public health and ...

People for Ethical Treatment of Animals will receive all videos, photos and other documentation associated with experiments involving marmoset monkeys in a University of Massachusetts laboratory ...

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 ...

Chinese researchers claim to have isolated and replicated human genes linked to intelligence, with the aim of testing these on monkeys. The leaders of the ...

After the monkeys died, the researchers conducted a closer examination of their brains. The study shows that monkeys with ...

I’m a wildlife veterinarian specializing in monkeys, so I know there are ways to prevent the recent incident in Mississippi where eight monkeys escaped during transport from a research lab in New ...

NI 62, a monkey bound for a medical lab when he escaped a truck crash in Mississippi, is now known as Forrest and living at ...