Sentences with phrase «on chimps»

In April, McClatchy Newspapers ran a special report based on its review of thousands of medical records detailing research on chimps like Bobby.

Such measures would no doubt make medical testing on chimps even more expensive than it already is.

We follow Alda as he meets with archaeologists unearthing stonework from caves in the Dordogne region in southern France and as he participates in behavioral studies on both chimps and children with primatologists at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University in Atlanta.

YOU may be walking on chimp - like feet without knowing it.

Chimp Coordinators, on the other hand, easily turn on chimp genes but don't work as well for human genes.

Humans evolved Coordinator mutations that are good at turning on human versions of genes, but not so great at turning on chimp genes.

[Read Scientific American's September 2011 editorial calling for an end to biomedical experimentation on chimps.]

Until now, line drawings published in 1950 of only five chimp brain hemispheres, she notes, have provided the most accurate and comprehensive look at furrow patterns on chimps» brains.

Some scholars suspect that coalitionary killing is a response to human encroachment on chimp habitat.

The Senate bill would phase out invasive research on chimps over a three - year period, giving the researchers time to implement alternatives, after which the animals would be retired to sanctuaries.

Both of these apes may have something to tell us about the evolution of human behavior, yet most research has focused on chimps, in large part because bonobos are endangered — perhaps as few as 10,000 remain.

Lacreuse worries that because «there are so many limitations on chimp research... it will only become more and more difficult to do these kinds of studies.»

«Genetic influences on chimp behaviour have always been a serious possibility that researchers maybe overlooked,» says Frans de Waal of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

The competition to attract a mate, as well as internal sperm competition, puts intense pressure on chimp male genes to evolve rapidly.

Meanwhile, Dan is testing drugs on chimps to enhance their intelligence, and Jody battles for a prestigious position within a ballet company.

Amanda shares the news about Siren: Blood Curse and Adam delivers on the chimp game love.

Were there labs experimenting on chimps?

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Observational or behavioral studies on chimps that occur in zoos or sanctuaries are considered noninvasive and will proceed.

You may be walking on chimp - like feet without knowing it: at least 1 in 13 of us has feet that are specially adapted for climbing trees

To develop and enforce tighter regulations, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which enforces the Animal Welfare Act, should establish an ethics committee specifically for biomedical research on chimps.

If the U.S. elects to continue testing on chimps, however, then it needs to adopt stricter guidelines.

His ears and vacent expression in his eyes remind me on chimps... Shame he isn't as versatile as a chimp, not the fastest of forwards but he does have good positioning and awareness.

«The tamarin work didn't pan out, but there are now several studies that show evidence of theory of mind in primates, including work by Brian Hare, Josep Call, Mike Tomasello, Felix Warneken, Laurie Santos, Justin Wood, and myself on chimps, rhesus monkeys and tamarins.

Testing on chimps has been a huge boon for humans in the past, contributing to the discovery of hepatitis C and vaccines against polio and hepatitis B, among other advances.

In 2015, the United States effectively ended biomedical research on chimps, including magnetic resonance imaging scans, but Hopkins says that such scans could be useful for the aging population of animals retired from research facilities.

1 in 13 people have bendy, chimp - like feet You may be walking on chimp - like feet without knowing it.

If the FWS rule is enacted as proposed, that would mean permits would be required to do research on the chimps, and they would only be awarded in instances where research benefits the animals directly.

The number suggests that all biomedical research on chimps has stopped — or is about to stop — and it's unclear whether the work will ever start up again.

The decision follows recommendations from an NIH advisory panel that said in January that the agency should curb research on chimps and instead «emphasize the development and refinement of other approaches, especially alternative animal models,» and move all but approximately 50 of the chimps to sanctuaries.

The NIH today accepted those principles as the criteria for any future research on chimps that it owns or supports.

Today's 84 - page report is a response to a December 2011 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report that found that most research on chimps was unnecessary.

And although some scientists are eager to begin new studies on chimps, but many wonder whether such research on these now - endangered animals will receive moral, or monetary, support.

Patient Zero was linked to the research lab that created the experimental Alzheimer's drug that was tested on the chimps that escaped and made their home in the redwood forests.

They have worked with the US government to end invasive testing on chimps.