Rhesus monkeys are found in the wild in Asia, with populations in Afghanistan through India, Thailand, Vietnam and China. They are used in experiments to study infection and immunity. The first ...

Affection in infants was long thought to be generated by the satisfactions of feeding. Studies of young rhesus monkeys now indicate that love derives mainly from close bodily contact ...

We gave 125 I-tyrosylated-C-peptide (I-CP) to 6 pregnant Rhesus monkeys by bolus followed by constant infusion. This resulted in a steady state in the maternal circulation of immunoprecipitable ...

The 43 rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped a South Carolina medical lab this week are among the most studied animals on the planet. And for more than a century, they have held a mirror to humanity ...

The monkeys that escaped are rhesus macaque primates, which have brown fur with red faces and ears. They have close-cropped hair on their heads, which accentuates their very expressive faces.

Authorities in Yemassee, South Carolina, have warned its roughly 1,100 residents to “keep doors and windows secured” after the escape of 43 rhesus macaque monkeys from a nearby biomedical ...

Officials in rural South Carolina say the female rhesus monkeys escaped into the wild after their pen was left open. Australian researchers have poked holes in an old thought-experiment known as ...

Should everything proceed smoothly, you end up with a healthy baby that's a genetic clone of the skin cell donor. But this rarely happens with somatic cell nuclear transfer in rhesus monkeys.

For instance, one earlier experiment only saw one monkey out ... are hoping this new wrinkle will let them create identical rhesus monkeys for medical research. These monkeys are like distant ...

Also known as the 'Monkey Island', Morgan Island in Beaufort County is home to more than 3,5000 rhesus monkeys ... about its funding of alleged animal experiments performed in its lab on the ...