Over 60 years of life-saving research and humane animal care
By Jordana Lenon The Orang-utan Conservation Genetics Project, led by Graham L. Banes, associate scientist at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, is ramping up. After more than a decade of sample collection and study, Banes and his team have published their standardized method for analyzing orang-utan genomes. Their work is described in a recent publication …
By Jordana Lenon, Senior Editor, Wisconsin National Primate Research Center Forty years ago today, the United States Environmental Protection Agency banned commercially manufactured polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), acting on evidence of their extreme environmental persistence and toxicity. Five years before the April 19, 1979 ban, New Scientist published “US losing fight against PCBs – a new cancer risk?” The magazine referenced its 1973 …