Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Western Ontario. Age: 34
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The animal rights organization purchases shares of a research facility in a bid to end chimpanzee testing at the facility.
The decision comes after a committee found that the vast majority of research can be done without using chimpanzees.
Gene expression controlled from afar may have spurred the spurt in brain evolution that led to modern humans.
After 6 months in orbit, Caenorhabditis elegans return to Earth—alive and well.
Researchers find that newts are capable of regenerating body parts well into old age.
Full Professor and Senior Research Group Leader, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases. Age: 42
Cut off a newt’s tail or a leg, or remove a lens from its eye, and it grows back. However, whether newts can continue to do this throughout their lives, or lose the ability as they get older, has remained a mystery. Now, in an experiment spanning 16
Tagging antibodies with rare earth metals instead of fluorescent molecules turns a veteran technique into a high-throughput powerhouse.
The Human Society is still concerned that a US primate research center of illegally breeding federally-owned chimpanzees.
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