Over 60 years of life-saving research and humane animal care
WNPRC distinguished scientist Toni Ziegler joins the BBC Earth Podcast to explore what drives the bond between parents and infants — drawing on her research into the hormones and behaviors behind parental care in primates. Listen to the episode (her segment runs 6:50–14:15)
Twenty years ago, WNPRC scientist James Thomson derived the world’s first human embryonic stem cells — and later the first induced pluripotent stem cells — launching a new era of regenerative medicine. This piece marks the anniversary and traces how those breakthroughs, born from nonhuman-primate research at WNPRC, now drive dozens of clinical trials.
WNPRC scientists Marissa Kraynak and Ricki Colman used marmoset monkeys to probe why menopause raises women’s risk of diabetes and weight gain — and found, surprisingly, that the decline in ovarian estradiol may play a much smaller role in metabolism than previously thought, pointing instead to estrogens produced elsewhere in the body, including the brain.