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  • Baboons escape research lab, lead men on chase

    Four baboons, having clearly read too much dystopian fiction, escaped a biomedical research lab in San Antonio by climbing a 55-gallon barrel and jumping out of their enclosure. The Texas Biomedical Research Institute described the escape as an "animal perimeter breach incident," which, in all…

  • Baboons break out of a research center

    (CNN) - Four baboons, having clearly read too much dystopian fiction, escaped a biomedical research lab in San Antonio by climbing a 55-gallon barrel and jumping out of their enclosure. The Texas Biomedical Research Institute described the escape as an "animal perimeter breach incident," which,…

  • Ingenious baboons escape Texas biomedical lab for brief taste of freedom

    Three of the baboons leaped over the wall that pens in some 2,500 animals, including 1,100 baboons, used to “aid our scientists in the search for new diagnostics, drug therapies and vaccines,” the San Antonio lab said. The fourth tried to make a run for it but appears to have gotten cold feet…

  • UTSA Department of Biology's first Fiesta medal supports mentoring program

    (April 18, 2018) – Fiesta is in the DNA of The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Department of Biology. The department's first ever Fiesta medal is now on sale in the Department of Biology located in the Biotechnology, Science and Engineering Building (BSE 1.620) for $10. All proceeds…

  • Baboons use team work to escape from biomedical research facility

    The Old World monkeys then proceeded to climb on top of the barrel and over the wall, eventually breaching the fenced perimeter of the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio and the Southwest National Primate Research Center. Such barrels are filled with grains and typically used in…