(CNN) — Scientists based in China have created a monkey chimera with two sets of DNA, experimental work they say could ultimately benefit medical research and the conservation of endangered species.

Authorities were still searching on Wednesday for three rhesus monkeys after they escaped following a truck accident in ...

An international team of 67 scientists, led by a top genome researcher in Seattle, may have moved us a few steps closer toward figuring out precisely what in the genetic code makes us human -- or, at ...

The big news in the scientific community this week was the announcement that scientists have decoded the genetic sequence of chimpanzees, the closest living relative to mankind. In articles published ...

A multimethod archaeological study of a spider monkey sacrificed at Teotihuacàn, located approximately 25 miles from Mexico City, provides the earliest evidence of primate captivity and translocation ...

A new technique takes aim at disease by swapping DNA from one cell to another. Aug. 27, 2009— -- Could some inherited diseases become a thing of the past? They might, if four baby macaque monkeys ...

One of the most detailed comparisons yet of human and chimp DNA shows that the split between the two species was a long, messy affair that may even have featured an unusual evolutionary version of ...

Viral DNA can be frequently detected in different clinical samples from monkeypox-infected patients, including saliva and semen, according to a new study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global ...

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