The most important task for animal caregivers is making sure animals are cared for properly. This involves providing access to water. Water…
Cats like Sophie help researchers study the molecular causes for heart failure. Almost 6 million people in the US have heart failure…
Garcia is participating in positive reinforcement training (PRT), also known as clicker training. PRT is a type of training in which animals…
These are rhesus macaques housed at the California National Primate Research Center. In the wild, and at the Center, these monkeys live…
Ferrets spend 75% of their day sleeping, but are very active when awake. They like to explore, forage, play, hide, rest, and…
Monkeys at the California National Primate Research Center enjoy Halloween pumpkins.
A zebrafish larva is an immature form of an adult fish. In this photo, you see a seven-day-old zebrafish larvae, around the…
The California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC) is home to the nation’s only active breeding colony of South American titi monkeys (Callicebus…
Peanut is a dog with a naturally-occurring form of muscular dystrophy. He is resting with his research technician after a round of…
Twirl is a rat within a training colony at a research facility. Her job is to help researchers become comfortable around rats…
Jills – female ferrets – are incredibly friendly and social and often sleep cuddled together. Research ferrets are housed so that they…
Clip provided by Americans for Medical Progress. Original briefing by The White House March 26, 2020
It's worse.
Researchers are turning to nontraditional approaches to create vaccines and therapeutics
Findings represent progress toward an HIV cure.
“It’s very exciting to see this trial starting so quickly and we hope it’s successful,”
"Inhibitory neurons are critically involved in many aspects of memory, and they are extremely vulnerable to dying after a brain injury,"
“It’s an intriguing idea that as people get older our neurons may actually become more active and that simple inhibition of this activity might be sufficient to lengthen lifespan,”
“You don’t really know fear until your kids get sick and you think something’s terribly wrong,”