If the procedure became efficient enough in monkeys, he said, society could face "a big ethical dilemma" over whether to adapt it for humans.

Scientists adding a human intelligence gene into monkeys - it's the kind of thing you'd see in a movie like Rise of the Planet of the Apes. But Chinese researchers have done just that, improving ...

Monkeys are marvelous, but face a bleak future thanks to other primates: Humans Monkeys are charismatic and beloved, but we are driving them to extinction. Can we protect them in time?

Long-tailed macaques given short videos were glued to scenes of fighting—especially when the combatants were monkeys they knew—mirroring the human draw to drama and familiar faces. Low-ranking ...

A monkey has been kept alive for 2 years with a kidney from a gene-edited pig, which could provide a path for people to get similar transplants.

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 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 ...