Sentences with phrase «chimpanzee research»

Jane Goodall hosts a tour in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania, where she talks about her team's chimpanzee research and conservation efforts, another great resource for educators studying biology, anthropology, ecology, and more.

A working group advising the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on chimpanzee research today urged that the agency sharply scale back biomedical and behavioral studies involving these animals.

How the rule change will impact National Institutes of Health (NIH)- supported chimpanzee research remains a bit murky.

NIH Director Francis Collins is expected to announce his decision about the future of NIH - supported chimpanzee research in the next few weeks.

Lanford admits that chimpanzee research is winding down in the United States, but he believes it will continue in some capacity.

The report's recommendations do not pertain to chimpanzee research carried out by industry, but some predicted that its effects would inevitably be felt in the private sector.

Nature previously reported on the New Iberia centre and the controversy around chimpanzee research in the United States (see Chimpanzee research on trial).

In a watershed moment for chimpanzee research, the U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report on December 15 declaring that «most current use of chimpanzees for biomedical research is unnecessary» and recommending the sharp curtailing of government - funded research on humankind's closest genetic relative.

The move comes on the heels of a letter sent by a who's who of chimpanzee researchers to Francis Collins, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), that sharply criticizes the bill, warning that it «would put extreme and unreasonable restrictions on future chimpanzee research.»

In one change, Collins said he plans to replace an oversight group made of federal government employees, the Interagency Animal Models Committee, that now reviews proposals for chimpanzee research.

In 2013, NIH announced it would phase out most agency - funded chimpanzee research and retire most of its 360 research chimps.

Not exact matches

That's the insight from new research into our primate cousins, chimpanzees, written up by evolutionary biologist Ben Garrod for Quartz.

Research comparing human and chimpanzee genomes, published in Nature, found that there are more than 40 million differences between the two species» base pairs, which are the DNA building blocks.

May 29, 2013 — Like some humans, chimpanzees and bonobos exhibit emotional responses to outcomes of their decisions by pouting or throwing angry tantrums when a risk - taking strategy fails to pay off, according to research published May 29 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Alexandra Rosati from Yale University and Brian Hare from Duke University.

At noon, Sen. Tony Avella will hold a joint press conference with The Humane Society of the United States, fellow elected officials, a representative from the Jane Goodall Institute and others to urge the New York Blood Center to keep its promise to provide lifetime care to a colony of chimpanzees exploited by the center for decades of research and then abandoned, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Saint: Institute of Medicine In December the institute recommended that the United States severely curtail its use of chimpanzees, man's closest relative, in medical research.

After a gap year spent as the assistant project director for a chimpanzee field site for ecological research in western Uganda, I began graduate school in my first - choice neuroscience program.

Her observations redefined primate research and led to the remarkable conclusion that chimpanzees make and use tools.

Now a research team led by James Anderson at the University of Stirling in the UK has shown that chimpanzees also perform «contagious yawning».

The NIH ruled that a Louisiana animal research facility that allowed its chimpanzees to reproduce in captivity was not breaking a breeding moratorium

Then, in June of last year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service stated that all U.S. chimpanzees — including the more than 700 chimps used in research — would be classified as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.

Two New York research chimpanzees have been returned to the organization that owns them, effectively ending a 2 - year legal battle to have the animals declared legal persons.

«At NIRC they will receive veterinary care, enrichment, exercise, and gradually be introduced to social housing with other chimpanzees... [They] will not be used for any research.»

Yet from 2015 to mid-2017, only 73 chimpanzees entered sanctuaries, leaving nearly 600 of the animals in labs; half were owned by the government, half by private research facilities.

Indeed, according to new federal rules, neither NIRC nor any other facility can use chimpanzees in research without justifying that the work enhances the survival of the species.

The words «writ of habeas corpus» have been struck out, suggesting that the court has made no decision on whether Hercules and Leo — two research chimpanzees at Stony Brook University in New York — deserve to be treated as legal persons.

A decision in June by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to list captive chimpanzees as endangered added another hurdle by requiring a permit to use any of the 700 research chimpanzees in the country in invasive research.

He studied wild chimpanzee in the Taï Forest, Côte d'Ivoire, and he has done laboratory research with biological samples obtained from both wild and captive chimpanzees.

After years of experiments, a protracted battle to grant them legal «personhood,» and a life spent bouncing between two scientific facilities, two of the world's most famous research chimpanzees have finally retired.

The move follows NIH's decision to end controversial monkey experiments at one of its labs and the termination of its support for invasive research on chimpanzees.

One of the AIR investigators was searching the medical research listing Medline for articles by one C.E.Graham, an expert in chimpanzee oestrus cycle endocrinology.

What, if any, research should continue with captive chimpanzees?

Chimpanzees may be leaving the research laboratory.

The contract was with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the moratorium only applies to chimpanzees that are owned or supported by NIH's National Center for Research Resources.

The Humane Society also has evidence, provided to ScienceInsider, that the U.S. National Institutes of Health violated its own moratorium on breeding chimpanzees for biomedical research, awarding New Iberia a contract to provide infant chimps to government investigators.

Pacelle says his group is working with Congress to introduce legislation that would ban all biomedical research with chimpanzees.

A chimpanzee virus could provide a useful alternative for vaccine development, according to new research in mice.

This, along with modern medical research tools, can allow us to give chimpanzees a kind of long - overdue respect that means something to them, not just to us.

Chimpanzees are popular subjects for AIDS research (even though their immune system rarely succumbs to the virus) and are used in painful cancer and psychological tests, as well as for research on blood diseases and organ transplants.

NIAID leases chimpanzees for use in infectious disease research at other accredited facilities.»)

Recent research suggests the virus «jumped» to humans from a West African subspecies of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) intermittently decades or even centuries ago.

NhRP also has more chimpanzees in its sights, though Prosin won't say if they are research chimps.

Invasive research projects on chimpanzees must legally come to an end next month unless researchers obtain a permit.

In a companion paper published this week in Genome Research, Sudmant and Eichler wrote that they inadvertently found the first genetic evidence in a chimpanzee of a disorder resembling Smith - Magenis syndrome, a disabling physical, mental and behavioral condition in humans.

Ebola vaccine for chimps works but may never be used Chimpanzees threatened by an Ebola outbreak could be protected by a new vaccine, but cuts in chimp research may stymie its development

In a second example of chimpanzee grieving, a research group led by Dora Biro, a zoologist at the University of Oxford in the U.K., observed two chimp mothers carrying the remains of their dead infants for weeks.

When introducing the bill, Senator Maria Cantwell (D — WA) said that about 1000 chimpanzees, half owned by the federal government, «languish at great taxpayer expense in six research laboratories across the nation.»

The brains were provided by the National Chimpanzee Brain Resource, which collects the brains of chimpanzees that have died from natural causes at zoos and research centers.

The matching bill would ban invasive research on the estimated 1000 «research» chimpanzees in the country that live in laboratories.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has accepted recommendations from an outside review committee to curtail the use of chimpanzees in biomedical research.