D’un côté une forte demande, de l’autre une offre limitée, le paysage du marché du macaque dédié à la recherche s’est fortement transformé ces dernières années. Conséquence : les laboratoires ... Lire la suite

The brain’s neural compass seems 2D, detecting only left and right head-turns. However, if the head is tilted in 3D, its rotation around the vertical axis also covertly changes its horizontal facing ...

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A group of employees have launched a series of campaigns to advocate for their work and argue against the center’s potential transition to an animal sanctuary.

Die Stabsstelle Kommunikation des Deutschen Primatenzentrums sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine*n

Using two-photon microscopy with a panoramic virtual reality setup, how head direction cells in larval zebrafish integrate visual landmarks and optic flow to track orientation is revealed.

In 1946, Tolman et al. reported that rats could take a novel shortcut to a goal after training on an indirect route, supporting the Cognitive Map theory. However, a review of subsequent Sunburst maze...

Nonlinear dendritic integration in single presubicular neurons provides a mechanism for combining vestibular-based head-direction signals and visual landmark signals to anchor the brain’s internal com...

Prof. Pieter Medendorp and colleagues have received a grant of nearly 1 million euros to investigate sensory disorders resulting from disease, accidents or ageing. The grant is part of the Open Techno...

Representatives from PETA and Doctors Against Animal Experiments presented to the petition committee of the German Parliament on 1 December, calling for a phased EU-wide end to primate research.

When news broke of an explosion inside Harvard’s neurobiology building early Saturday morning, every scientist who works with monkeys felt it—an involuntary jolt, a spike of cortisol, the silent thought: what if it had been us? Neither animals nor people were hurt, thankfully. It doesn’t appear to have been an attack. But it didn’t matter. For those of us who work with monkeys, the fear is always near the surface.

Wie steht es um die Xenotransplantations-Forschung (Organtransplantation von Tier zu Mensch)? Prof. Eckhard Wolf (LMU München) im Interview.