It's part vacation retreat, part blood drive, part zoo — and it could be the future of chimpanzee research, if not the species itself. With wild chimp populations plummeting — some populations by 80 ...

The findings, published online today in Virology Journal by principal investigator Pascal Gagneux, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and colleagues, could ...

Pascal Gagneux, one of the few laboratory scientists who has studied wild chimpanzees, is a walking encyclopedia of chimpanzee/human differences. Ever since scientists began studying chimpanzees, they ...

Researchers have shown for the first time how influenza A viruses snip through a protective mucus net to both infect respiratory cells and later cut their way out to infect other cells. Researchers at ...

Researchers found that a secret handshake between the sperm and the cells lining the uterus suppresses the female body’s immune response, essentially lifting the protective barrier and allows the ...

Assisted reproductive technologies like in-vitro fertilization (IVF) has emerged as a boon for many couples who face reproductive problems such as infertility, polycystic ovary syndrome, erectile ...

Why does it take 200 million sperm to fertilize a single egg? One reason is that sperm, when they arrive in the uterus, face a bombardment by the immune system. Perhaps, says molecular anthropologist ...