Sentences with phrase «research 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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

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

The IOM committee left open the possibility that chimpanzees may be a necessary animal model to address future emerging or reemerging diseases, which raised the question of whether NIH will readdress its 17 - year - old ban on funding the breeding of chimpanzees for research.

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 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.

«Committee members confirmed the center's position on the importance and necessity of having continued access to a chimpanzee model to promote public health research,» he notes.

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

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

As biomedical research mushroomed, animal dealers did a brisk trade supplying chimpanzees to laboratories anxious to test their vaccines, drugs and theories about disease on our closest living relatives.

Robert Lanford, the current director of SNPRC, says no research is currently being done on the center's 129 chimpanzees, and that his organization is not applying for any permits at this time.

If NIH follows through on the report, «Clearly there is going to be a reduction in the use of chimpanzees in research,» said veterinary researcher K. C. Kent Lloyd of the University of California, Davis, who chaired the working group of the NIH Council of Councils, to reporters.

After asking an advisory committee to help it carry out IOM's advice, NIH announced last June that it would retire to sanctuaries all but 50 of its 360 research chimpanzees and impose new requirements on any remaining NIH - funded behavioral and biomedical studies.

The proposed rule, which the public can comment on for the next 60 days, would create a new permitting process for scientific research with captive chimpanzees.

«NIH anticipates that critical NIH - funded research using chimpanzees will be able to continue under permits that may be required as part of the final rule,» states an answer to a «Frequently Asked Question» on the FWS website.

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.

But a new opportunity may be opening up for studies of chimpanzee behavior and cognition: A first - of - its - kind partnership between a sanctuary and a research center, announced this month, is designed to bolster the scientific output of facilities that have until now primarily focused on the long - term care of their animals.

Working in the lab of Salk's Fred Gage, the Vi and John Adler Chair for Research on Age - Related Neurodegenerative Disease, Narvaiza, Marchetto and their colleagues identified genes that are differentially expressed between iPSCs from humans and both chimpanzees and bonobos.

Based on previous research, the scientists expected the orphaned juveniles to play less frequently and smoothly than the mother - reared chimpanzees: After all, the orphans had missed their most important caretaker throughout a sensitive socialisation period, and continued to lack a safe and facilitating social environment provided by their mothers.

As chimpanzees avoid human contact, CHRISTOPHE BOESCH explains, the research team conducted the study by setting up camera traps to catch chimpanzee behavior on video.

New research shows that chimpanzees search for the right tools from a key plant species when preparing to «ant dip» - a crafty technique enabling them to feast on army ants without getting bitten.

Her research expertise includes the effects of violence on and trauma recovery elephants, grizzly bears, chimpanzees, and parrots, and other species in captivity.

I proved during my research study that wild chimpanzees that are habituated to human observers on the ground are tolerant to, and most importantly do not alter their natural behaviors in the presence of, human observers in the canopy.»

Recent research on dogs has indicated more human - like forms of reasoning about what people know than has been demonstrated even in chimpanzees, he said.

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

To provide humane, lifetime care for chimpanzees no longer used in biomedical research, as pets or as entertainers and; to educate the public on the needs for conservation in the wild and protection in captivity.

McConnell notes that research on primates, especially chimpanzees and bonobos to whom we are most closely related, reveals that hugging is an integral part in giving and seeking out comfort and affection.

She says that while doing research for her book on human relations to captive chimpanzees, she became interested in the genealogy of chimps in the U.S.

That film has now been edited and will be airing on the BBC this week — the trailer's after the jump.While it seems more like a premise for a bad reality TV show that a scientific study, it turns out it's precisely that — primatologists outfitted the chimps with cameras as part of their research into how chimpanzees perceive the world and one another, according to the BBC.