The 88-year-old, nicknamed “the man with the golden arm,” donated blood plasma more than 1,100 times to protect unborn babies ...

Of two hunky monkeys, which would you say has the most sex appeal? That’s easier to answer if you’re a rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta)—or Constance Dubuc, an evolutionary biologist at the ...

Martines, H.S., and Sanchez, F. (1985): Management of a harem breeding colony of rhesus monkeys to reduce trauma-related morbidity and mortality. Journal of Medical Primatology 16, pp. 38-44. Lindburg ...

This depends on one’s Rhesus factor – an antigen occurring in the red blood cells indicating the presence of a protein known as ‘D antigen.’ If your blood type is RhD negative, your red ...

several research projects are in jeopardy Harvard’s Dr. Sarah Fortune had warned that rhesus macaque test subjects could be euthanized because of the federal grant freeze. Researchers at the ...

Environmental enrichment is designed to promote the behavioral health of understimulated nonhuman primates by providing them with species-appropriate conditions for the expression of species-typical ...

Using a within-subjects design, four male 3–5-year-old Rhesus macaques, weighing 4–7 kg, free from SIV, type D simian retrovirus, and herpes B virus were obtained from Covance (Alice ...

Although the rhesus monkey is an excellent model of human growth hormone physiology, no developmental survey of serum concentrations of the growth hormone dependent somatomedin, insulin-like ...

Over 60 wildlife biologists have appealed to the Centre to ensure the highest level of legal protection to the rhesus macaques under Schedule 1 of the Wild Life (Protection) Act, 1972. In a letter ...