Unusually Wired: Human Brains are Attuned to Appreciate Musical Pitch

A small study of macaques finds they don’t develop a coronavirus infection the second time they are exposed, supporting the idea of using plasma from recovered patients as a treatment for COVID-19.

The auditory cortices of humans and rhesus monkeys respond very differently to harmonic tones.

The seven primates came into contact with a dye that was used on their mothers, documents reveal.

For primates, males’ fancier ornaments are linked with smaller testes, according to a new comparative study.

Researchers edited macaque embryos to induce symptoms of sleep disorders and chose one animal to clone. A bioethicist questions the study’s appropriateness.

A perception of sustained focus may actually be the result of cycles of fluctuating rather than continuous neural activity, according to new behavioral and neurological data from studies in humans and macaques.

Inflammation may be a strong contender for the connection between mom’s weight and children’s neurodevelopment, according to lab studies on animals.

The organ’s blood-pumping capacity improved with the infusion of cells, a study shows.