The global race for a COVID-19 vaccine boils down to some critical questions about how much to rev up people's immune systems — and whether revving it the wrong way... more

Innovative vaccine uses another virus to present two genes from the novel coronavirus more

Humans are unusual, even among primates, in the length of our "extended childhood." Scientists think that this period of childhood and adolescence, which gives us lots of time... more

A monkey attacked a lab technician on the campus of a medical school in India and ran away with blood samples from three patients that were... more

More like mom or dad? Human babies always get this curious look in their faces combined with the question of whom the child resembles most. The answers vary... more

More like mom or dad? Human babies always get this curious look on their face combined with the question whom the child resembles most. The answers... more

Many animals rely on facial traits to recognize their kin; however, whether these traits have been selected specifically... more

Effective delivery of protein therapeutics to the central nervous system... more

A team of researchers from the University of Vienna and the Biomedical Primate Research Centre in Rijswijk, the... more

If someone around you yawns, the chances are that you too will soon yawn. In orangutans it has now been found that scratching is very contagious. This is what cognitive... more

News-Medical spoke to researchers from the German Primate Center on their research in determining the activation sequence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. more

Increasing occurrence... more

The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines... more

De novo protein design has been successful in expanding the natural protein repertoire. However, most de novo proteins lack biological function, presenting a major methodological challenge.... more

New images reveal the earliest impairments to nonhuman primate fetal brain development due to alcohol ingested by the mother, in a study led by scientists at Oregon Health... more

New images reveal the earliest impairments to nonhuman primate fetal brain development due to alcohol ingested by the mother, in a study involving rhesus macaques. Magnetic resonance imaging showed impairments to brain... more

Dopaminergic neuronal cell death, associated with intracellular α-synuclein (α-syn)–rich protein aggregates [termed "Lewy bodies" (LBs)], is a well-established characteristic of Parkinson’s disease... more

A trio of researchers from the University of New Mexico, Harvard University and the University of Southern California has found evidence that suggests the curved phalange... more

Investigators have shown that a new type of vaccination can substantially enhance and sustain protection from HIV. more

Researchers have uncovered evidence about the importance of maintaining physical distance to minimize the spread of microbes among individuals. Monkeys were observed in the wild to... more

Researchers from the Emory Consortium for Innovative AIDS Research in Nonhuman Primates and their colleagues across North America have shown a new HIV vaccine... more

An analysis and structural modeling of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, the area of the... more

The following is a brief roundup of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to... more

Coxsackievirus B (CVB) enteroviruses are common human pathogens known to... more

Rhesus macaques don't monkey around when it comes to HIV; they have a protein that effectively disables invading HIV particles. more

The SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infects lung cells and is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. The viral spike protein mediates entry of the virus into host... more