Sentences with phrase «on chimpanzees»

That's the number of labs that have applied for a permit to conduct invasive research on chimpanzees in the United States, as required by a new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) rule.

The world's foremost expert on chimpanzees.

He is worried about the technical design of Girard's experiment and has asked for more work on chimpanzees to be done.

The U.S. government effectively ended all invasive research on chimpanzees in 2015 and said it would retire all the chimps it owned.

Repeatedly, biomedical studies on chimpanzees had been approved by review boards and animal care committees.

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The vaccine is based on a chimpanzee cold virus, called adenovirus 3 (ChAd3), that's been engineered to produce a viral protein specific to the Zaire Ebolavirus...

In our view, the time has come to end biomedical experimentation on chimpanzees.

Holder says he doesn't see the workshop as a sign that NIH is turning away from nonhuman primate research, despite its actions on chimpanzees and the Poolesville monkeys.

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

Raghanti agrees: «Currently we are not permitted to do MRI scanning on chimpanzees, and maybe that decision could be looked at again.»

In the 1990s, for example, zookeepers in Sweden spied on a chimpanzee that kept flinging rocks at human visitors.

To validate their findings, the researchers used two years worth of behavioral data collected on the chimpanzees.

For decades she has been the preeminent authority on chimpanzees, and her major work, The Chimpanzees of Gombe, has been a kind of bible to primatologists.

Takayoshi Kano and others, meanwhile, have cast a new light on chimpanzee behavior through studies of the bonobo, the chimpanzee's more peaceable, more egalitarian cousin.

«Early maternal loss has lifelong effects on chimpanzees.»

I am struck by parallels with the case of biomedical research on chimpanzees at the National Institutes of Health, which in 2011 was deemed «unnecessary» by an independent Institute of Medicine review.

«This is different in the case of pythons, which are the only snakes likely to prey on chimpanzees.»

Challenging that advice, Weiss and his team created a questionnaire on chimpanzee personality traits.

For example, a recent trial of a new medication for mood disorders, tested on chimpanzees, was later linked to one human death and irreversible brain damage in three other people.

It also features a lot of commentary on the chimpanzees» background and their territory wars (as the film focuses on).

Pack Oriented: I remember reading a research paper on chimpanzees.

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The cases were filed on the chimpanzees» behalf by the Nonhuman Rights Project of Coral Springs, Florida.

Jane Goodall, the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, is one woman who points the way.

Kauffman says that, to be safe, any researcher working on a chimpanzee should consult with FWS before continuing their project.

The same can be seen in animals, as illustrated in an old black - and - white photograph from Wolfgang Köhler's classic tool - use studies on chimpanzees.

He built the film largely from footage of Goodall conducting research on chimpanzees in the wild in Tanzania, material that had sat dormant in National Geographic archives for over 50 years.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) is effectively ending its support for invasive research on chimpanzees.

Public opinion could help; according to a recent Pew Research Center poll, 50 % of Americans now oppose animal research, and the government itself has ended its support of some animal studies, most notably biomedical research on chimpanzees.

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.

Many countries have banned invasive research on chimpanzees.

This approach also has limitations as it impedes comparisons with findings in other studies and other species, which is essential if you want to use research on chimpanzees to better understand the evolution of human personality traits.»

Within an hour, Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which funds research on chimpanzees, announced that he accepted the recommendations and would move to implement them as swiftly as possible.

In a landmark decision, the National Institutes of Health announced today that it will drastically scale back its research on chimpanzees, humans» closest living relatives.

► «[NIH] is effectively ending its support for invasive research on chimpanzees,» Jocelyn Kaiser wrote at ScienceInsider later that day.

I convinced him to let me do research with him on chimpanzees.

The FWS ruling may also affect labs that conduct only behavioral research on chimpanzees.

Kauffman says that, to be safe, any researcher working on a chimpanzee should consult with USFWS before continuing their project.

Biomedical research on chimpanzees has been waning since 2013, when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it would phase out most government - funded chimp research and retire the majority of its research chimps to sanctuaries.

In December 2011, an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report found that most research on chimpanzees is unnecessary and that NIH should limit the animals» use.

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.

The world's top expert on chimpanzees, Goodall spent more than 50 years observing and documenting social interactions of wild chimps in Tanzania, starting under the guidance of Louis Leakey in the late 1950s.

Dame Jane Goodall, born Valerie Jane Morris - Goodall in 1934, is known for her studies on Chimpanzees and primates in modern times.

The Jane Goodall Institute provided tours of Gombe National Park in Tanzania where Goodall has done much of her research on chimpanzees.