A group of scientists from the Kunming Institute of Zoology in China’s southwestern Yunnan province has launched a genetic resource bank for the closest biological model to humans: the macaque. Known ...

China's breeding facilities cannot cope with the surging demand for primates from large biotech companies.

Ligers, mules, and narlugas are all known examples of hybrid animals (i.e., the offspring of two different species that interbreed for various reasons). These organisms often possess genes from each ...

Chinese researchers have developed a high-density, 1,024-channel neural probe, achieving a full-depth recording of neuronal activities in the brain of a macaque monkey for the first time in the world.

This study is led by Prof. Tianzi Jiang (Brainnetome center of the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Prof. Lingzhong Fan (Brainnetome center of the Institute of Automation, ...

Sri Lankan Agriculture Minister Mahinda Amaraweera's announcement that authorities were considering exporting 100,000 endangered toque macaque monkeys to a private Chinese company has sparked protests ...

The country's breeding facilities cannot cope with demand for non-human primates from huge biotech companies, meaning global ...

A troop of long-tailed macaques on Old Upper Thomson Road has apparently decided to branch out from the mundane routine of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Following the Sri Lanka Agriculture Ministry’s confirmation of a request from a Chinese company to import 100,000 toque macaques for their zoos, ...

As an ideal model for studying human cognitive function and brain diseases, macaques are highly similar to humans in genetics, physiology, and brain structure. Currently, non-human primates are ...