In a new JNeurosci paper, Julie Royo, from the Institute of Cerveau, and colleagues explored the neuroanatomy that underlies ...

The Global Liver Institute urges worldwide integration of liver health into diabetes and obesity care as steatotic liver disease surges.

Researchers shed light on the "dark matter" of the gut, revealing a species of fungus that could potentially help counter fatty liver disease. The research is in its early days, though.

A new Mississippi primate sanctuary aims to offer rescued primates a lifelong home and help veterans like owner April Stewart find healing.

Studying primate characteristics requires access to their skeletons, which can be costly and cause wear and tear to the specimens themselves.

Your liver fills the space under the right side of your rib cage and nestles on top of your stomach. It's made up of two parts called lobes -- a smaller left lobe and a bigger right lobe.

Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the US these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 million years ago, giving birth to twins was the norm.

Human influence on primate society Conservation is key to ensuring that research like this can continue into the future; without healthy populations of apes in the wild, we can’t study them.

Life How wild primates adapt to living with disabilities For primates, being born with a missing limb or experiencing a major injury isn’t necessarily disabling if their environment or social ...

The largest primate in our family tree went extinct hundreds of thousands of years ago, and its existence has been known to humankind for less than a century. Now, a team of researchers has ...

Primate social organization is more flexible than previously assumed. According to a new study, the first primates probably lived in pairs, while only around 15 percent of individuals were solitary.

LAWRENCE — The story of Ekgmowechashala, the final primate to inhabit North America before Homo sapiens or Clovis people, reads like a spaghetti western: A grizzled and mysterious loner, against ...